May 24, 2025 – Lyman Reserve

We led a butterfly walk today for the Wareham Land Trust at the Lyman Reserve. Although the weather wasn’t forecast to be perfect for it, we decided yesterday that we would give it a go. Overall, the weather was better than expected with sunshine, then clouds, then sunshine again throughout the walk and temperatures in the lower 60’s. So yeah, not ideal but not hopeless.

We did manage to be able to show people some Juvenal’s and Horace’s Duskywings, a Brown Elfin and a Gray Hairstreak. It was our goal to be able to show people some of the early season butterflies that won’t be around much longer, so to us it was a success!

We also saw a few other cool things on the property like a Golden Sweat Bee (photo above), a few Oak Leaf Rolling Weevil pupa, Blue Corporal Dragonflies, something being called a Coastal Graphic Moth and a bunch of Barrens Buck Moth caterpillars!