A few mid-July butterflies Hardwick/New Braintree

[Wendy Howes]

It's been quiet on the butterfly front in our neck of the woods. Nectar sources are increasing, though, and there's been a small uptick in activity since about a week ago.

New Braintree 7/12  MA Central Rail Trail, including hayfields- some unmowed, but could not walk into fields -and wooded edges

1 Tiger Swallowtail

1 Spicebush Swallowtail

1 Cabbage White

1 Great Spangled Fritillary

1 Appalachian Brown

2 Little Wood-Satyr

4 Monarch

1 European Skipper

Hardwick  7/13 Home and neighborhood

1 Tiger Swallowtail

1 Spicebush Swallowtail

1 Cabbage White

4 Clouded Sulphur

3 Great Spangled Fritillary

2 Appalachian Brown

2 Little Wood-Satyr

1 Monarch

2 Silver-spotted Skipper

Wendy Howes & Alan Rawle

Hardwick