August 2

 

   Nathan Fisk writes:  I’m writing in to report on the heart warming number of Woodland Skippers swarming the White-topped Aster in theFort Rodd nursery.  I’d conservatively estimate 75 Woodland Skippers, 10 Bombus vosnesenskii, 20 leaf-cutter bees and at least 3 other species are nectaring in this area. The make-up of the invertebrates changes over the course of a day with the bulk of the skippers showing after noon. A wonderful sight. 

 

  And Bryan Gates also comments on the Woodland Skippers in his garden.  He sends a photograph of one.

 

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Bryan Gates

 

   Mistakes:   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Every now and again I make some sort of mistake – spelling, identification, date, whatever – when entering contributions.  Some of them are glaringly obvious and must be noticed by anyone who looks at the site.  But you are all so beautifully polite and don’t want to hurt my feelings, so you don’t mention it to me.  Please, please, please, if you spot a mistake of any sort:  let me know about it, so that I can correct it!