Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY PICTURES # 111, 1 by C_A_Ivy

C_A_Ivy wrote:
Congrats Kim on all the new monarchs. Your patients and being prepared paid big dividends. I saw lots of migrating monarchs flying across the interstate 40 and Cherokee turnpike yesterday in Oklahoma. Sadly some flew into the pathway of vehicles which makes me wench and curse every time one gets hit.
Juhur, that large moth is a Large Maple Spanworm moth.

I got to observe a Brazilian skipper at the Ray Harral Nature Center in Broken Arrow on Monday. I noticed cannas the host plant but saw no damage on leaves or frass (cat poop) so I started hobbling down one of the wooded trails and in a sun lit clearing was a large skipper, basking on vegetation. Lucking me, a stray from the Gulf, a Brazilian skipper in central eastern Oklahoma which is far north of its homeland.








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