Mattapan butterflies 10/19/16

[LUCY MERRILL-HILLS]

Hi,

Today at Boston Nature Center, Mattapan, Ma in the fields and in the community gardens from 1:30-2:30, I saw the following butterflies:

16 Cabbage White

 2 Clouded Sulphur

 2 Orange Sulphur

 1 Black Swallowtail

In addition to many end of season vegetables and herbs growing in the garden plots, asters of every color were blooming in the fields.

82 degrees, sunny

Lucy Merrill-Hills

Roslindale, Ma

[bkin...@netscape.net]

On Sunday i spotted a lonely Monarch floating across Nonotuck park in Easthampton

Bruce King

Easthampton

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