<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">About a dozen people (and a Pandorus Sphinx) attended our annual trip to NAS Bent-of-the-River sanctuary in Southbury. We saw these things:<div><br></div><div>E. Tiger Swallowtails</div><div>Cabbage Whites</div><div>Clouded and Orange Sulphurs</div><div>Am. Copper</div><div>Eastern Tailed Blue</div><div>Summer Azures</div><div>GS Frits</div><div>Pearl Crescents</div><div>Eastern Commas</div><div>Red Admiral</div><div>Viceroy</div><div>N. Pearly Eye</div><div>Little Wood Saytrs</div><div>Common Wood Nymph-o-rama</div><div>Monarchs</div><div>Silver-spotted Skippers</div><div>Little Glassywings</div><div>Delaware Skippers</div><div>Dun Skippers</div><div><br></div><div>It’s National Moth Week!</div><div><br></div><div>A Pandorus Sphinx sat in Christine Cook’s hand the entire trip (and put back in the same spot it was found 2 and a half hours later)</div><div>Snowberry and Hummingbird Clearwings</div><div>A Confused Haploa!</div><div>Yellow-necked Scape Moths</div><div>Promethea Moth caterpillar</div><div>The Gypsys are going strong this year</div><div>Arched Hooktips</div><div><br></div><div>Roesel’s Katydids abound, as always…</div><div><br></div><div>Most importantly, a great group of people to spend a day afield with!</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;">John Himmelman</span><br><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><a href="mailto:jhimmel@comcast.net">jhimmel@comcast.net</a></div><div>*************************</div><div>Visit my websites:</div><div><a href="http://www.johnhimmelman.com">www.johnhimmelman.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.greenhillmartialarts.org">www.greenhillmartialarts.org</a></div><div>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnHimmelman" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">https://twitter.com/JohnHimmelman</a></div><div><br></div><div>"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things." Rainer Maria Rilke</div></div></span></div></span></div></span>
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