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Micro Monarch
August 07, 2020 - August is the month to start searching the milkweeds for mini-monarchs, the luridly colored caterpillars of the equally...
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Hope for the tomatoes
August 02, 2020 - Of all the pests that plague tomatoes, I think most gardeners would nominate the Tomato Hornworm, the caterpillar that t...
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Unexpected return
July 02, 2020 - When the owner of a nearby field decided that it was looking too unkempt and needed to be mowed regularly, I knew that s...
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Wool off eyes
June 27, 2020 - I should have known this moth, which I found perched on the cedar shingles by the kitchen porch light, almost instantly.
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Fire kids
June 10, 2020 - This is the first of what I think is a member of the Pyreferra problem-caterpillar clan: absolutely lurid, almost incand...
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First day survivor
August 11, 2019 - Yesterday I spotted my first Monarch butterfly eggs; today, on a walk to prepare for an upcoming guided tour of the Pres...
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Caterpillar nightmare
June 12, 2019 - I was combing the leaves and flowers of a Bridal Veil Hydrangea for intriguing insects when I came face to face with a P...
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Shade-saving "miracle"
May 24, 2019 - There are no Gypsy Moths around, but that doesn't mean that we're free and clear from defoliation. It was, apparently, a...
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Waiting for mail
October 16, 2018 - At first, I thought this was a small twig that had somehow gotten stuck on the newspaper attachment to the mailbox. It's...
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Goldenrod turbulence
September 25, 2018 - One of my favorite ongoing projects is to comb the goldenrods for caterpillars and then, after I've found and photograph...
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Doomsday forecast
September 23, 2018 - I found this fat, furry caterpillar, which was over two inches long, in the leaf litter, and I promptly put it in a smal...
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Perplexing mystery
September 01, 2018 - Caterpillars drive me nuts. I really, really need to apprentice myself, if anyone would have me, to an expert—UConn's Da...
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Monarchs, incoming
June 24, 2018 - A couple of generations past the overwintering congregation in the Mexican highlands, the Monarch butterflies are back o...
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At the swallowtail bar
June 04, 2018 - It was a banner year for an earlier-spring flowering shrub known as the Spicebush. It was a great 2017 for the plant's s...
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The impossible season
May 25, 2018 - Every birdwatcher will probably admit that he or she went bad on warblers, those brightly colored jewels of the woodland...
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Winter moth success
November 25, 2017 - This is a scene that you don't see very often, even though, given the enormous number of Winter Moths currently flitting...
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Coat of caterpillar colors
September 26, 2017 - The goldenrods have been prime for a good month, and on every walk, I comb them, leaves and flowers, for insect life, on...
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Kitty-pillar
September 22, 2017 - Sometimes, you're just in the right place at the right time... and you're paying attention to the right things. So it wa...
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Better not touch
September 01, 2017 - The word "stunning" is often over-used when it comes to attempting to describe lepidopteran larvae, but in the case of t...
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Monarch season begins
August 06, 2017 - I was out with a group of Avalonia Land Conservancy folks this morning at an area known as the Peck Preserve to examine...
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Looper revealed
July 05, 2017 - Most of today was spent trying frantically to finish up writing projects, so the trekking notebook was essentially a bla...
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The plague, Gypsy Moth edition
June 23, 2017 - The End—the Gypsy Moth plague—arrived suddenly and without much advanced warning. Oh, I had seen a few dead caterpillars...
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Worrisome reminder
April 07, 2017 - The sun came out, but it would not, of course, dry up all the rain... at least, not for several days, particularly at to...
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Cecropian
August 26, 2016 - For the record, I didn't spot this almost four-inch-long caterpillar during the Miner preserve walk I led this afternoon...
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Happy surprise
July 01, 2016 - This morning found me at my old haunt, the Miner refuge in Stonington, where I'd spent parts of 2013 and 2014 working on...
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A blessing from pathogens
June 13, 2016 - Over the past few days, I've begun to notice something that seemed almost too good to be true: the local Gypsy Moths app...
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The beginning of the end... hopefully
April 25, 2016 - I took advantage of a fabulous "daily deal" at the B&H Photo website and bought a bargain-priced ringlight that, I hoped...
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Asteroid arrival
September 14, 2015 - If I had my life to live over, I would have become an environmental biology teacher and spent my career informing kids a...
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Frits after dark
August 28, 2015 - By day, the Great Spangled Fritillary procession, the best I've ever seen, continues, although it's starting to slow dow...
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Next year's plague
July 14, 2015 - The Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus that laid waste to countless Gypsy Moth caterpillars did a fine job of knocking down popu...
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Plague's end
June 27, 2015 - It has been a pretty bad year for Gypsy Moths, and though the defoliation is spotty, there are places around here where...
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The colorful dagger
September 10, 2014 - In Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America —the best book imaginable on the subject—University of Connecticut author...
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