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With Don Fraser, Valeri Ponzo, and Fran Meyerson; a post-Hurricane Helene visit to see if there was damage to the WEA (not really, although Clint Gibson was worried about salt-water storm surge into fresh-water marshes where Dukes' Skippers breed, which we could neither confirm nor deny). The blooming season for Bristles Thistles is nearly over, so we saw far fewer swallowtails and skippers than on recent previous trips. We found two Larger Florida Mantises, but neither was actively hunting butterflies. I had never seen more than two Ailanthus Webworm Moths in a single day before, but there probably were 20 or more here; Phaon Crescents were flat-out abundant, and we saw multiple Little Metalmarks and Spotted Beet Webworm Moths. The pond has the most water this year; as a result, I stayed close to the road at all times. The weather at the start was partly cloudy, 80 degrees ("feels like" 80), with calm winds. It rained ever so slightly for less than a minute at one point. We arrived here at 0922 and left at 1035. We then headed to the southern end of Scrub Island Road.

With Don Fraser, Valeri Ponzo, and Fran Meyerson; a post-Hurricane Helene visit to see if there was damage to the WEA (not really, although Clint Gibson was worried about salt-water storm surge into fresh-water marshes where Dukes' Skippers breed, which we could neither confirm nor deny). The blooming season for Bristles Thistles is nearly over, so we saw far fewer swallowtails and skippers than on recent previous trips. We found two Larger Florida Mantises, but neither was actively hunting butterflies. I had never seen more than two Ailanthus Webworm Moths in a single day before, but there probably were 20 or more here; Phaon Crescents were flat-out abundant, and we saw multiple Little Metalmarks and Spotted Beet Webworm Moths. The pond has the most water this year; as a result, I stayed close to the road at all times. The weather at the start was partly cloudy, 80 degrees ("feels like" 80), with calm winds. It rained ever so slightly for less than a minute at one point. We arrived here at 0922 and left at 1035. We then headed to the southern end of Scrub Island Road.

With Don Fraser, Valeri Ponzo, and Fran Meyerson; a post-Hurricane Helene visit to see if there was damage to the WEA (not really, although Clint Gibson was worried about salt-water storm surge into fresh-water marshes where Dukes' Skippers breed, which we could neither confirm nor deny). The blooming season for Bristles Thistles is nearly over, so we saw far fewer swallowtails and skippers than on recent previous trips. We found two Larger Florida Mantises, but neither was actively hunting butterflies. I had never seen more than two Ailanthus Webworm Moths in a single day before, but there probably were 20 or more here; Phaon Crescents were flat-out abundant, and we saw multiple Little Metalmarks and Spotted Beet Webworm Moths. The pond has the most water this year; as a result, I stayed close to the road at all times. The weather at the start was partly cloudy, 80 degrees ("feels like" 80), with calm winds. It rained ever so slightly for less than a minute at one point. We arrived here at 0922 and left at 1035. We then headed to the southern end of Scrub Island Road.