Myles Standish State Park, etc.

[Barbara Volkle and Steve Moore]

Today (5/19/2013) twelve MBC members participated in the scheduled
walk at Myles Standish State Park. We walked the pipeline trail from
10am to 1pm and saw:

Eastern Pine Elfin - 8
Brown Elfin - 15
Hoary Elfin - 6
Frosted Elfin - 5
Juvenal's Duskywing - 4
Wild Indigo Duskywing - 1
Dreamy Duskywing - 1
Sleepy Duskywing - 5
Mourning Cloak - 1
Gray Hairstreak - 1
Cabbage White - 1
Clouded Sulphur - 2
Cobweb Skipper - 4 (all fresh)
Pearl Crescent - 6
Spring Azure - 10 (3 form Lucia)

Also seen by one or more participants were a Hognose Snake, a Red Fox
in the cranberry bogs, 13 horses and a flower.

The trip split into 2 groups one of which went to Ponkapoag Swamp
where a Hessel's Hairstreak was located and the other went to
Nasketucket Park in Mattapoisett where the following were seen (no
Little Yellows, White M Hairstreaks or Zabulon Skippers were out
yet):

Cabbage White - 1
Juvenal's Duskywing - 5
Pearl Crescent - 12
Eastern Tailed-Blue - 1
Spring Azure - 10 (including 1 form Marginata and 1 Lucia)
Cherry Gall Azure - 2
Eastern Pine Elfin - 1

Steve Moore
Northborough, Ma
bar...@theworld.com

[Alison Robb]

The little yellow flower was Hudsonia tomentosa, or Poverty Grass.

Alison Robb

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