Worshiping the Creator by observing His creation is what I like to do best. This end of summer season is a great time for butterflies, caterpillars, and more.
At Roots the last several weeks visitors have been a Garden spider and her egg sack - several species of butterflies in their various life stages from egg to larva to pupa and then adult. Thanks to John Laskowski we had 3 cecropia caterpillars and a display of a dissection of the cecropia cocoon done by Al Spoo. We also had a saddle back (from Taylor Wingert) and a fiery skipper caterpillers (from Carl ? last name - a friend from insect club)
I started the last paragraph to tell about what we were doing at Roots but ended up showing you how valuable volunteer / friends are to what I do.
Here are some recent pics from my nature adventures.
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| pair of meadow fritillaries ( I saw more than 30 at one time) |
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| the plentiful sulfur butterflies are pretty too |
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| fly on mint (can you id either species?) |
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A young falconer named Patrick gave a presentation at the Lancaster Bird Club.
He works for Zoo America in Hershey. |
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| Great Horned Owl at Bird Club |
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| Patrick brought more than birds with him. |
Get out - and see what He is doing!
