Hardwick butterflies 5/21

[Wendy Howes]

For the morning MBC field trip at Muddy Brook WMA in Hardwick, a high cloud cover rolled in, allowing only intermittent sunshine. The three participants (and one person who just likes getting outdoors) managed to find only the following:

 

3 Juvenal's Duskywing

1 Tiger Swallowtail

2 Eastern Tailed-Blue

1 Clouded Sulphur

1 Cabbage White

1 Six-spotted Green Tiger Beetle

 

I returned later in the afternoon when the sun came out, but could only add a single Tiger and single Sulphur.  I had hoped to find elfins, but no luck.

 

In my yard in Hardwick was one very fresh Spicebush Swallowtail. I have about a dozen that I raised and overwintered that are still chrysalids.

 

Wendy Howes

Hardwick