June in Massachusetts, as far as butterflies are concerned, was pretty bad. The terrible weather of May really showed it’s effects on butterfly populations throughout the state with species counts not being TOO bad, but overall individual numbers being pretty low.
Thus, I didn’t post much.
We did get the opportunity to go searching for Frosted Elfin caterpillars at night on the local military base though. That was a lot of fun and we saw a lot of cool things using the UV flashlights! Several Frosted Elfin caterpillars were found (photo above) along with many other caterpillar species (and a cute mouse!).
But things have started to turn around as they usually do in July. Today, we had 7 species in our yard which was encouraging!
Several of the more interesting June and early July sightings are posted here and hopefully I can get back to some more regular posts from here on out.
Our Natural Adventures 
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