I feel it's a letdown to have a post without pictures... but I'll have to overcome that because that's exactly what this post is!
This past Monday for our Restoration Ecology lab, we checked out a couple more prairie remnants here in Story County. I didn't take my bins or camera but I did keep a mental note of the butterflies. I recall:
Black Swallowtail
Orange/Clouded Sulphur
Cabbage White
Gray Hairstreak
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Pearl Crescent
Monarch
Viceroy
Common Buckeye
Common Checkered-Skipper
Fiery Skipper
Tawny-edged Skipper
With October a week and a half away, I'm wondering when I'll start to notice dwindling diversity here in central Iowa....
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