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And October - Vanessa cardui
Copyright © 2005 Jason Forbes

And October - Vanessa cardui
Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
October 1, 2005
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Contributed by Jason Forbes on 14 October, 2006 - 6:48pm

missed them this year
Jason,

Nice photo! We had lots of Painted Ladies last year in Durham, NC, This year I can recall only one report of them. Seeing many or just a few?
… Randy Emmitt, 14 October, 2006 - 7:21pm login or register to post comments

 
very few
I've seen very few Vanessa at all this year. One in early May (uploaded the picture) and one in early July. Also had American Lady on maybe 5 days (3 one day, rest singles) and about the same for Red Admiral. Plus a couple more that didn't stay long enough to say which lady. That's about 66% less sightings than last year, but I was also out way more this year. I'd imagine that I would have had double to triple the sightings last year with comparable effort, so that's really a huge dropoff.
… Jason Forbes, 14 October, 2006 - 9:05pm login or register to post comments

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