Westport butterflies
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Sat Aug 9 16:26:41 EDT 2003
Got really lucky this morning--while visiting my mother in Westport, we
actually had a few hours of decent weather! While in and around the
swimming pool, we saw four Tiger Swallowtails, a dozen or so Cabbage
Whites, a Monarch (my first definite sighting of the season), and what at
first I thought were a few skippers. When they landed on the privet hedge,
I realized they were hairstreaks, in various stages of disrepair, one
extremely ragged, one with tails still evident, one in fairly good shape, with
a visible orange crescent. Based on parallel markings on the wings, sort
of =, my best guess is Hickory Hairstreaks. As I watched, one just sat on
a leaf rubbing its hindwings together--trying to attract someone? Also, on
the buddleia, a quick glimpse of something small and light, either an
Eastern Tailed Blue (possibly with tails missing) or an Azure. There
seemed to be a Red Spotted Purple at the top of a bush, and a black
swallowtail--I couldn't tell if it was a Black or Spicebush--it didn't look as
bad as the lep Rich just sent out, but it seemed to be flying with three
wings!
Driving home, more Cabbage Whites along the sides of the roads, a few
Tiger Swallowtails crossing the highway, one Monarch crossing the
highway in North Branford.
Diane Adams
Chester, Westport, and "the road"
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