Broad Meadow Brook: Worcester, MA (8/20)

After getting back from the Cape we decided to spend a relaxing afternoon at BMB doing some butterfly monitoring. It was sunny and 85 deg and the flowers were blooming, especially the Joe-Pye-Weed. The Ground Nut was growing like crazy and threatening to choke off everything in its territory. Even so, the butterflies were pretty sparse. But we did have a Buckeye (my second for the sanctuary this year) which made the trip worthwhile.

Butterflies: Cabbage White, Great Spangled Frittilary, Clouded Sulphur, Peck's Skipper, Common Ringlet, Eastern Tailed-blue, Common Wood Nymph, Dun Skipper, Crossline Skipper, Spicebush Swallowtail, Viceroy, Common Buckeye, Broad-winged Skipper, Tiger Swallowtail