Black Swallowtail
- Monarch butterfly on a swamp milkweed flower.
I knew I would be recycling this day so a summer hike surely would be good. You know the old phrase: Kill two birds …. I chose to concentrate on some old gas well roads in hopes of finding bear tracks or, better yet, see one. Wild critters were not in abundance this morning, but as the sun warmed the flowers many butterflies began to flutter around.
I saw my first monarch butterfly this morning. I, casually,
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
checked some milkweed leaves for the white, yellow and black striped caterpillars. I didn’t find any of the caterpillars. However, I discovered two on my “personal stash” of milkweed plants.
Bumblebee on Bull Thistle
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