<div dir="ltr">Forgot over a dozen Tiger Swallowtails on Greylock. I assume Canadian.<div><br></div><div>Ray Simpson</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Raymond Simpson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond.simpson@yale.edu" target="_blank">raymond.simpson@yale.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hey all,<div><br></div><div>Went up to western Mass. as this was my "now or never" attempt because work load is only going to get worse in the next month. I wanted to check out Moran WMA for the Arctic Skipper which I had never seen before. It was a nice habitat and I would have put out a sheet there at night if it wasn't so windy and in the open Sat. There was a lot of poplar, willow, and cherry and my moth sampling spots usually do not sample such habitats.</div><div><br></div><div>I also dropped by Mt. Greylock at around 2:30pm where I saw Early Hairstreak with a Massachusetts photographer last year. Surprisingly I didn't see anyone out there looking for it but I never did see any this day. Very strange. I was a bit late for the Early last year, but it doesn't seem the Early lived up to it's name this year. All the other species are the same as last year, almost to the exact list!</div><div><br></div><div>Did some moth collecting in Beartown St. Forest but a burst of rain ruined what was building to a decent sheet. The sheet was sparse on new arrivals after that I guess because of wet conditions. I got a late <i>Feralia comstocki, Bellura obliqua, Leuconycta diptheroides, and Maliattha concinnimacula</i>. A nice green trifecta! It was very geo heavy, like always in the late spring.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Moran WMA</b>:</div><div>Tiger Swallowtail (Canadian?) - 2 (one very pale like a Pale Swallowtail) - I think Canadian is the species up here but I did not catch any to confirm.</div><div>Black Swallowtail - 2 (M/F)</div><div>Clouded Sulphur - 12+ (many whites all turned out to be white female <i>Colias</i>)</div><div>Orange Sulphur - 2 (beat females, one flirting with a male <i>philodice</i>)</div><div>Spring Azure - 5 (very worn out)</div><div>Cherry Gall Azure - 1 (fresher male with <i>neglecta</i> underside, collected)</div><div>Pearl Cresent - 6+ (these were fast fliers but my vouchers look like typical Pearl Crescent and not the Northern Crescent)</div><div>Common Ringlet - 2</div><div>Gray Comma - 1 (first outside NH for me, buzzed by while my net was occupied with a non-lep)</div><div>Dreamy Duskywing - 6+</div><div>Arctic Skipper - 20+ (these things were all over the place in twos and threes)</div><div><br></div><div><b>Mt. Greylock</b>:</div><div>West Virginia White - 5 (one tiny one that I thought was a Orangetip)</div><div>White Admiral/Redspotted Purple - 2 (one with full bands and one intermediate with blue)</div><div>Red Admiral - 1 (on summit)</div><div>Mourning Cloak - 7 (top of Stony Ledge Trail)</div><div>Common Ringlet - 2 (Jones Nose Trailhead)</div><div>Hobomok Skipper - 3 (males)</div><div>Pepper & Salt Skipper - 3</div><div>NO Early Hairstreak!</div><div><br></div><div>Greylock is a great spot to hike, and the view from the top is awesome.</div><div><br></div><div>Odes were quite poor in diversity:</div><div>Common Baskettail - 10+</div><div>Common Whitetail - 2</div><div>Clubtail sp. (prob. Lancet) - 1</div><div><br></div><div>Also saw Hummingbird Clearwing (2)</div><div><br></div><div>Ray Simpson</div></div>
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