{"id":72,"date":"2015-09-05T23:17:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T03:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/?p=72"},"modified":"2015-09-05T23:45:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T03:45:57","slug":"september-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/2015\/09\/05\/september-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"September Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Butterfly abundance is declining as expected\u00a0in September. Most of the butterflies still on the wing are common ones:\u00a0Cabbage White,\u00a0Clouded Sulphur, Northern and Pearl Crescents, Great Spangled Fritillary and\u00a0Common Ringlet. \u00a0However, a little field work can\u00a0turn up valuable records.<\/p>\n

For instance, I sampled some fields in Waterville today and found a\u00a0Wild Indigo Duskywing. This specimen represents a new northern record for the state. We know this species is on the wing through September so there is the opportunity to make my range-extension record a short-lived one.<\/p>\n

\"Eastern-tailed<\/a>I also found an\u00a0Eastern Tailed-Blue (photograph above), a species whose flight season extends into October.<\/p>\n

A couple of grass skippers will be on the wing until the middle of September: Leonard’s Skipper (http:\/\/www.butterfliesofmassachusetts.net\/Leonards.htm<\/a>) and Laurentian Skipper, the northeastern form of the\u00a0Common Branded Skipper. I don’t have a photo of Laurentian Skipper but did photograph the similar Western Branded Skipper earlier this summer in Wyoming. \u00a0Quite a striking skipper.<\/p>\n

\"Common<\/a>

Western Branded Skipper, Gros Ventre Road, Wyoming<\/p><\/div>\n

Finally, September is a great month for the anglewings. A good strategy for finding various\u00a0Polygonia<\/em> species is to walk or drive slowly along dirt roads or fairly open woodland trails. \u00a0Last summer, I am sure I could have found over 100 Green Commas by driving a dirt road in LaGrange. The anglewings were easy to see in the road and a stealthy approach resulted in acceptable voucher photographs.<\/p>\n

\"Green<\/a>\"Green<\/a><\/p>\n

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Butterfly abundance is declining as expected\u00a0in September. Most of the butterflies still on the wing are common ones:\u00a0Cabbage White,\u00a0Clouded Sulphur, Northern and Pearl Crescents, Great Spangled Fritillary and\u00a0Common Ringlet. \u00a0However, a little field work can\u00a0turn up valuable records. For instance, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[228026,228027,228029,228028],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mbsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}