Horn Pond Mountain, Woburn -- JUNE REPORTS

[Peter Loshin]

I've fallen behind on reporting, so I'll try to catch up one location at a time starting with Horn Pond Mountain.

A quick summary of the month at HPM: Kind of slow, not many duskywings at all, but the hairstreaks are out since last week, including Coral, Banded, Gray, and Edward's. I've been seeing them all over the place but only the past few days at the "usual" spot for hairstreaks (on the steep rocky trail with lots of Meadowsweet and New Jersey Tea). Almost no larger butterflies, and the top of the mountain is rather bare of flowers.

2026-06-07 (Sunday)

Lisa Wolfe and I went to HPM from 9:00 - 11:00. Sunny with wind, temp mid-70s. We saw:

1 Painted Lady

8 Little Wood Satyr

4 Cabbage White

4 Duskywing (sp)

2026-06-10 (Wednesday)

I went to HPM from 9:00 - 11:00 and saw:

3 Cabbage White

5 Little Wood Satyr

1 Painted Lady

4 Duskywing (sp)

3 Dusted Skipper

1 Lady (sp)

3 Common Ringlet

2026-06-19 (Friday)

Mid-70s, sunny but windy. I saw:

7 Cabbage White

4 Lady (sp)

1 Little Wood Satyr

2026-06-22 (Monday)

Mid-70s, calm and overcast. I went from 8:45 - 10:00 and saw:

1 Edward's Hairstreak 

10+ Cabbage White

3 Sulphur (sp)

3 American Lady

1 Painted Lady

1 Silver-spotted Skipper

2026-06-24 (Wednesday)

70s, calm and sunny. I went from 10:00 to 11:45 and saw:

1 Edward's Hairstreak

1 Banded Hairstreak

1 Coral Hairstreak

1 American Copper

5 Cabbage White

1 Eastern-tailed Blue

6 American Lady

2 Sulphur (sp)

1 Azure (sp)

2 Silver-spotted Skipper

1 Skipper (sp)

2026-06-25 (Thursday)

I went from 9:30 - 11:00 and saw:

1 Edward's Hairstreak

1 Little Glassywing

1 Painted Lady

1 American Lady

1 Eastern-tailed Blue

1 American Copper

7 Cabbage White

2026-06-26 (Friday)

I went from 10:00 to 2:15, upper 70s to mid 80s, partly cloudy. I saw:

2 Banded Hairstreak

2 Edward's Hairstreak

1 Gray Hairstreak

1 Monarch

2 American Lady

2 Eastern-tailed Blue

10+ Cabbage White

2026-06-27 (Saturday)

Mid 70s and sunny. I went from 10:00 to 12:15 and saw:

1 Coral Hairstreak

5 Banded Hairstreak

2 American Lady

1 Azure

1 Sulphur (sp)

4 Eastern-tailed Blue

12 Cabbage White

2026-06-29 (Monday)

Mid-80s, sunny. I went from 1:30 to 4:30 and saw:

5 Coral Hairstreak

1 Banded Hairstreak

4 Gray Hairstreak

5 American Copper

1 American Lady

4 Eastern-tailed Blue

6 Sulphur (sp)

9 Cabbage White

(several grass skippers, no ID)

2026-06-30

High 80s, sunny I went from 12:00 to 13:00 and saw:

4 Gray Hairstreak

3 American Copper

7 Sulphur (sp)

7 Eastern-tailed Blue

7 Cabbage White

Peter Loshin