We had a nice day for our last field trip of the year and ended up with a very respectable species count, especially for this late in the year (19 spp.).  Highlights included seeing a variegated fritillary and lots of dainty sulphurs.

Our butterfly species list for the day was: cabbage white, orange sulphur, clouded sulphur, cloudless sulphur, dainty sulphur, eastern tailed-blue, gray hairstreak, American snout, pearl crescent, question mark, Eastern comma, red admiral, common buckeye, variegated fritillary, mourning cloak, viceroy, monarch, silver-spotted skipper, fiery skipper.

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American snout

Snouts are quite friendly.  This little guy found us rather than vice-versa.

Orange sulphur

  Chinese mantid

This is a different individual than the one above.  If you look closely, you can see little black ants crawling over its body.  We're not sure why these ants were on the mantid, but there were quite a few of them.

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