Leps Today ...
donald adams
… at ‘Adams Farm’, West Bridgewater …
Pearl Crescent 9
Cabbage White 6
Monarch 4
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 3
American Copper 1
Don Adams
donald adams
… at ‘Adams Farm’, West Bridgewater
Monarch 7
Spicebush Swallowtail adult 1
Spicebush Swallowtail cat 2 (One 1 st Instar, One Third)
Tiger Swallowtail 1
Clouded Sulphur 1
American Copper 1
Cabbage White 4
Pearl Crescent 3
Red Admiral 1 (FOY: Finally a pic)
Don Adams
donald adams
… at ‘Adams Farm’, West Bridgewater
Monarch adult 6
Monarch Cat 1 (2 nd Instar: This is about as big as I’m able to find here most of the time.)
Tiger Swallowtail adult 6 (Including two together on Joe-Pye-Weed)
Tiger Swallowtail Cat 1 ( 1 st Instar on Prunus Serotina)
Spicebush Swallowtail 2
Cabbage White 8
American Copper 1
Summer Azure 1
Zabulon Skipper 3
Humming Bird 1
Don Adams
donald adams
… at ‘Adams Farm’, West Bridgewater …
Monarch adults 5 (Including one raised and released)
Monarch eggs 1 ( Females are still depositing eggs here so not yet in reproductive diapause for migration)
Spicebush Swt adults 2
Spicebush Swt cats 2 ( First Instar on Sassafras)
Tiger Swallowtail 2
Zabulon Skippers 5
Pearl Crescent 2
American Copper 1
Cabbage White 5
Don Adams
donald adams
… at ‘Adams Farm’, West Bridgewater …
Hurricane Henri essentially missed southeastern Mass today and two of eight Monarch Chrysalides, outside in my ‘calling cage’ (doubling as an eclosure cage) for the past week, eclosed in the rain at 9:00 AM. They toughed this out fairly well and by 2:00 PM, when even the rain was done, they became quite active so I released in our flower garden where there were already two other Monarchs flying about. So ..
Monarchs 4
Cabbage White 1
Don Adams
donald adams
… at ‘Adams Farm’, West Bridgewater
Tiger Swallowtail 2
Spicebush Swt adult 2
Spicebush Swt cats 2 (One 2 nd instar, one 4 th, both on Sassafras)
Monarch adult 5 (Including one mating pair and one raised/released)
Monarch egg 1
Cabbage White 6
Zabulon Skipper 4
Also at Garden in the Woods (Native Plant Trust) in Framingham …
Spicebush Swallowtail cats 2 ( One 1 st instar on Sassafras, one third instar on Spicebush)
Monarch cats 2 (Both 4 th instar. These are the largest found cats I’ve seen this year!!)
Don Adams
donald adams
… at ‘Adams Farm’, West Bridgewater..
Monarch adults 4
Monarch cats 1
Spicebush Swt adult 2
Spicebush Swt cats 3
Tiger Swt 2
Viceroy 1
Pearl Crescent 1
Cabbage White 11
Don Adams
donald adams
… at ‘Adams Farm’, West Bridgewater …
Monarch adults 7 (Nectaring at Zinnias and Butterfly bush)
Monarch cats 1 (2 nd instar)
Spicebush Swallowtail cats 1 (2 nd instar)
Black Swallowtail 1 (Male nectaring at Zinnias)
American Lady 1 (Nectaring at Zinnias)
Pearl Crescent 6
Zabulon Skipper 8 ( One male/female pair performing a rather elegant ‘courting ritual’)
Cabbage White 15
Don Adams
donald adams
… here at ‘Adams Farm’, West Bridgewater much the same as yesterday and reports of most others ..
Monarch Many ( Really not possible for accurate count so I’ll just say somewhat greater than 12 with butterflies moving about between Zinnias and Butterfly Bush 100 ft away. Still have 4 chrysalids) and 5 cats going)
Pearl Crescent 5
Cabbage White 17
Clouded Sulphur 2
Buckeye 1 (FOY and nectaring from our Mountain Mint for 20 minutes so easy to get pics)
Don Adams
donald adams
… at ‘Adams Farm’, West Bridgewater ..
Monarch 5 ( FAR fewer today, including one released from raised stock)
Clouded Sulphur 2
Orange Sulphur 1
Black Swallowtail 1 ( Female searching in grassy places I assume looking for wild carrot plants)
Painted Lady 1
Pearl Crescent 2
Eastern-tailed Blue 1
Zabulon Skipper 2