Without Trying for Butterflies
JH
jhimmel at comcast.net
Mon Aug 1 08:13:02 EDT 2011
When I get butterflies at the blacklight, it's almost always a hairstreak - Banded, Striped, or Hickory - once, a Red-banded. I put the latest on my moth site a few weeks ago - www.connecticutmoths.com.
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: Diane Tucker
To: swalter15 at verizon.net
Cc: ctleps-l at lists.yale.edu
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: Without Trying for Butterflies
How right you are, Steve. While I was black lighting for moths last weekend at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, I managed to snag a Pearl Crescent.
Diane Tucker
On Jul 31, 2011, at 6:05 PM, Steve Walter wrote:
Thursday, July 28, got a Broad-winged Skipper while black lighting for moths at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennet Field. It seems to be my first Broad-wing in that manner. It's happened a few times over the years with Sachem.
Sunday, July 24, after finishing up checking for overnight moths at Westchester's Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, I got to photograph a Northern Pearly-eye that had landed on my car -- before 6:30 A.M. (The moth highlight, the night before, was a Tulip Tree Silkmoth -- I believe a first for the reservation.)
Who needs to go out in the hot sun to find butterflies?
Steve Walter
Bayside, NY
Diane Tucker
Naturalist, Hill-Stead Museum
www.hillsteadblog at wordpress.com
The Hill-Stead Nature Blog
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