many red admirals in Wichita

[Dave Clermont]

With the strong winds we had yesterday and especially today, they reached us
in Granby / Quebe (april 17th)
Today I saw around 30+ of them flying very fast, all following the wind that
was blowing in the north east direction, and a few females were stopping on
our nettle patches to lay some eggs. 
Definetely a bumper year for them, but when they come in strong numbers so
early, they can end up using all the available nettles (ive seen that
before, no more nettles and hundreds of larvae crawling everywhere to find a
bit of leave to chew on) and the 2nd/3rd generation is usually very low
because of the parasitic flies expansion that follows, and potential lack of
food available. 

Dave
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Saw a few red admirals yesterday (Apr 16) whizzing around my garden in
Toronto Canada!

Nancy

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