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.
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Arboretum: Summersweet Butterflies and Wasps
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Tagged Arnold Arboretum, beetles, Boston, butterflies, Clethra alnifolia, clethra family, dragonf, grasshoppers, insects, long dash skipper, Massachusetts, meadowhawk dragonfly, pearl crescent, shrubs, spring azure, ulmus americana, wasps, weevils, zabulon skipper
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