7/11 -Camp Edwards field trip

[Barbara Volkle]

Thanks to Jake McCumber for leading the field trip to Camp Edwards in Bourne. Below is his trip report.

Barbara Volkle

Northborough, MA bar...@theworld.com

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I had a wonderful time leading the Camp Edwards field trip for the Massachusetts Butterfly Club today and we had great weather for it. We did find four species of hairstreak (the advertised target group) today. While we missed the two harder to find species (Acadian and Oak) we had more than five dozen Edwards'. Thanks to everyone who joined us out there. Full list (20 species) below.

Spicebush Swallowtail: 11

Clouded Sulphur: 3

American Copper: 22

Banded Hairstreak: 2

Coral Hairstreak: 7

Edwards’ Hairstreak: 64

Gray Hairstreak: 4

Eastern Tailed-Blue: 3

Baltimore Checkerspot: 6

American Lady: 1

Little Wood Satyr: 1

Common Wood Nymph: 28

Monarch: 12

Wild Indigo Duskywing: 1

Least Skipper: 2

European Skipper: 1

Tawny-edged Skipper: 1

Northern Broken Dash: 3

Delaware Skipper: 4

Dun Skipper: 12