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Posts Tagged ‘moths’

 

Beautiful animals that aren’t birds: Cecropia moth caterpillar

Monday, August 9th, 2021

In the Sanctuaries …
Sherman, August 9, 2021 — On a routine walk at Deer Pond Farm to check on a habitat improvement project, Jim Arrigoni found a creature he had never before seen in his many years as a conservation biologist: the caterpillar of a cecropia moth.

Beautiful Animals that aren’t birds: Compton Tortoiseshell

Sunday, August 2nd, 2020

August 2, 2020 — Stefan Martin, one of Connecticut Audubon’s top-notch naturalists, was making a check of the perimeter of Deer Pond Farm in Sherman last week when he saw a rare-for-Connecticut butterfly rise from the dirt road he was walking on.

 

 

 

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