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Late yesterday afternoon, I found something new to me here at the farm — a pair of Delicate Cycnia Moths (Cycnia tenera) resting together on the underside of a Common Milkweed leaf in the midst of some Meadowsweet brush next to the woods. I’ve never seen these moths around the farm before, so that alone […]
A mating pair of wasp mimic flies — probably Temnostoma alternans If you visited my blog earlier today, you may have seen this post with no text. I must have hit the publish after placing the photos but before writing the text. Oops! That’s probably a first for me. Anyhow, Just a few little notes […]
Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor) All three of these photos were taken while I was working in the garden this morning. I was up bright and early — but more about that down below. The Gray Treefrog was found in the front garden while I was hanging out laundry. It was quite a good-sized frog, and […]
The weather has been very erratic here over the past few weeks. Last weekend, we were baking, but the past couple of days, I’ve been covering the vegetable garden with tarpaulins as there has been a threat of frost. As I write this post, the temperature is about 15C (58F). It was colder yesterday morning […]
A couple of days ago, I wrote about the Eris militaris spiders that have made silky refuges on the back of an old plastic lawnchair in the small orchard here at the farm. During one of my follow-up checks, I found that there are now two female spiders on the chair – one inside a […]
Here at the farm, there’s a small open area in a section of the poplar woods. The sunshine washes over the vegetation for most of the daylight hours. Any time that I want to find butterflies, that’s the place to go. Yesterday, as I walked the section of trail passing through this open area, two […]
Yesterday, I saw the first Black Swallowtail butterflies (Papilio polyxenes) of the season. The one above was resting on some muddy tire tracks in the lane just outside my house this afternoon (click on above image for larger view). I found a second one flying in a meadow beside the poplar and birch wood lot. […]