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Arboretum: Summersweet Butterflies and Wasps

On Tuesday, I walked from the Arboretum’s main gate to the shrub garden. I saw a couple of butterflies for the first time, among them a common sootywing (Pholisora catullus), a dark brown butterfly with white spots.

Common sootywing
Common sootywing

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Arboretum: Cup Plants and Caterpillars

I found this white-dotted prominent caterpillar (Nadata gibbosa) crawling across Meadow Road yesterday. A green caterpillar with an opaque, lighter green face, it is covered with white dots. This one had two brown patches on it, perhaps some sort of infection?

white-dotted prominent caterpillar
white-dotted prominent caterpillar

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