Bad Bear Hill leps 09/14/24
Colleen Wolpert
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From: Colleen Wolpert <spid...@stny.rr.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2024 1:36 PM
To: Jason Gorman <jason...@fllt.org>; Edie Jodz <edie...@fllt.org>
Subject: Bad Bear Hill leps 09/14/24
9/14/2024 Bad Bear Hill preserve on a sunny afternoon around 80 degrees. 2.5 hours.
Walked from parking area to first big T. Then just a bit to right (a few minutes that included a special sighting of a less common Comma).
Hoping to get some photos uploaded to iNaturalist soon.
Cabbage White – only one!
Clouded Sulphur – only one!
E. Tailed-Blues – mostly females; dozens; more than I have ever seen at a time; “everywhere” in sunny patches
Crescents (most were Pearl Crescents; likely all were) – dozens, including female flying to nectar while mating male attached
Meadow Fritillaries – at least 2
Great Spangled Fritillaries – a few females, including one laying eggs in the path at our feet
Monarchs – 2-3
Mourning Cloak
Gray Comma (hoping for a Green Comma since host plants matched that and not Gray); 2 very fresh in different locations
Caterpillars – Woolly Bears; Hickory Tussock Moth
Turkeys that included young ones near the parking area as we were coming back to our car. Only one deer and one squirrel. A few birds, including Pileated WP.
More open sunny areas than expected.
No bug spray needed. Amazing since they seem to be biting every place else. We don’t wear bug spray due to my tendency to handle critters. And we don’t have it on our clothing or boots. The only tick I got was from putting my hand on a tree trunk.
The only place we saw poison ivy was right by where we parked so it was good we had a change of shoes and bags to put our boots in.
What great fun we had! Thanks so much to all that make these places accessible.
Colleen (and Paul) Wolpert
