breaking news!!!

[Grkovich, Alex]

Rich,

Everything was out quite early this year, by about 2 to 3 weeks, including the Hairstreaks...and it was also of course dry and hot. The Hairstreak flights, it seemed to me, were past their peaks and may have been for the most part done by July 4...In the week following July 4, in central Mass., all I saw were a few past peak Acadian Hairstreaks and some on schedule Coral Hairstreaks...I have seen no Gray Hairstreaks in New England and no Hickory Hairstreaks this season...Banded and Edwards were fairly numerous, and even Northern Hairstreaks were seen in decent numbers in southern MA...but again all were very early...and at least up here nectar sources were poorer than normal.

Alex
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Subject: breaking news!!!

I saw a Hairstreak (Gray) today!! It was the 4th or 5th Hairstreak I have seen this year.
What has happened to the Hairstreak population in CT? Two or three years ago in July I would walk the trail around the main field at Walden and see 100+ Hairstreaks. This year  during the July 3 & 4 walks at Walden no Hairstreaks were seen. There was only one species of Hairstreaks seen on the Salisbury count and no Hairstreaks were seen on the Flaherty count.
I would be interested to know the number of Hairstreaks seen on the other CT counts.
I do not think this is a one year happening as I recall last years sightings were also down. Were Hairstreak numbers down in the 2009 counts also?

other sightings today and yesterday
Tiger and Spicebush Swallowtails
Clouded Sulphur
Cabbage White
Amer. Copper
Tailed Blue
Summer Azure
Great Spangled Frit
Pearl Crescent
Amer Lady
Red Admiral
Red Spotted Purple
Monarch
Common Wood Nymph
Sliver Spotted Skipper
The Pipevine caterpillars are approx 1/4" long and still on the very small plants. Have counted approx 20 caterpillars.

Rich Chyinski




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