Today I participated in my first of the year Massachusetts Butterfly Club (https://www.massbutterflies.org/) walk at Myles Standish State Forest. We were looking for the usual species, Elfins, Azures and anything else that might show up. We had a great group of people and the weather couldn’t have been better with temps rising into the lower 70’s and sunny! There was a bit of a breeze, but that wasn’t terribly troublesome. This trip was originally planned for Saturday the 26th, but rain delayed it by a couple days.
We started at the Fearing Pond Road end of the gas lines where we were able to find several species including Brown Elfins, Hoary Elfins, Eastern Pine Elfins, American Ladys, and Juvenal’s Duskywings!
From here we went over to the Bare Hill Road end of the gas lines and saw much of the same species there. Many participants had to leave after this and a few of us headed over to the Bentley Loop Trail to see if we could find any Eastern Tailed-blues. We did manage to find one (photo at top) along with a few American Ladys that were ovipositing on what appears to be Sweet Everlasting, one of their host plants.
All in all a great day!
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