Finally Fritillaries - Spencer, MA 6/29/26

[kstei...@aol.com]

I'm not sure how often we get reports from Spencer (?), so I thought I'd send this along. The hike we were supposed to do this morning was overgrown and tick-filled, so we ended up walking a gravel road around a solar farm surrounded by meadows that appeared to have been planted with native mixes and seemed promising for butterflies.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail - 1

Cabbage Whites - 10 (at least)

Clouded Sulphur - 1

Eastern Tailed Blue - 1

Great Spangled Fritillaries (strangely, the 1st I've seen this season) - 7

A fly-by something or other that was too fast for ID

Kristin Steinmetz