Slow Sunday

It was supposed to be a nice sunny day, but as usual, the weather forecast was wrong. This is sounding like a broken record! I have not seen the sun yet today!
I stopped at a couple of CA's to walk through the damp grass. European Skippers are very plentiful now.

At Reid I have seen lots of moths. Perhaps it would be a good place to do a moth study. I don't know too many moths though. One unidentified moth below:



The Eight-spotted Forester is an easy one to know.

Eight-spotted Forester Moth

Among the butterflies, a fresh Eastern Comma was flying about. (There was also a Question Mark in the same area!).

Little Wood Satyrs are getting plentiful....

Anywhere one goes, you can see dead and dying Ash trees. No single tree or woodlot has been spared by this vorocious critter. They are everywhere. At McKeough CA, some sticky boards are up and they all have some of these metallic green bandits stuck to them. Last year you were hard-pressed to find the ash borer.

I still saw a couple of Hobomok Skippers. One different one was likely a Northern Broken-Dash (photo below).

Things are almost a week behind what they were a year ago. We need a dry spell!