[Ctleps-l] West Rock CBA trip 7 May

[Gall, Lawrence]

Hi, about 20 people met up to hike West Rock this morning, and although it was not raining, there was a chilly wind and only a few brief breaks of sun.  So the crew was forced to mostly look around on foodplants, kick cedar trees, and the like.  Here was the tally:
Papilio polyxenes (Black Swallowtail) - 1 adult flying
Vanessa virginienesis (American Lady) - 1 adult flying; two first instar larvae on Antennaria (Pussytoes)
Erynnis juvenalis (Juvenal's Duskywing) - 1 adult flying
Anthocharis midea (Falcate Orangetip) - 3 unhatched eggs on Arabis lyrata; 1 hatched egg and first instar on Arabis lyrata

Slim pickings.  Tent caterpillars (Malacosoma americanum) were well along, in third and fourth instar.  Show and tell before the walk featured a box of pinned specimens of West Rock's springtime butterflies, and some Tupperware containers housing last instar caterpillars of three species of underwing moths (genus Catocala).  In addition to Lenny Brown's posting from Saturday for West Rock, on today's walk Jeff Fast mentioned he was able to photograph a Parrhasius m-album (White-M Hairstreak) on West Rock a couple days ago.  Maybe next year...
Best,

Larry

- - -

Lawrence F. Gall, Ph.D.

Head, Computer Systems Office
Collections Manager, Entomology
Peabody Museum of Natural History
P.O. Box 208118, Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520-8118 USA

e lawrence.gall at yale.edu<mailto:lawrence.gall at yale.edu>
p 1-203-432-9892
f 1-203-432-9816

http://www.peabody.yale.edu<http://www.peabody.yale.edu/>


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/ctleps-l/attachments/20170507/a6a936d2/attachment.html