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Arboretum: Summersweet Butterflies and Wasps

by sicloot Posted on August 23, 2013

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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Cape Ann Campsite Insects

by sicloot Posted on August 16, 2013

I’ve posted about the birds and sea creatures that we saw on our camping trip at the Cape Ann campsite. We also found a few bugs during our explorations.

The office on the campgrounds has a nice flower and vegetable garden a few feet away. We found a couple of Peck’s skippers (Polites peckius), which settled on a leaf after chasing each other.

A pair of Peck's skippers — Peck’s skippers

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Arboretum: Summersweet Butterflies and Wasps

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