Mourning cloak butterflies, Nymphalis antiopa, have an immense geographic range that circles the globe in the northern hemisphere. They are native to North America, Europe and Asia, and in some areas ...
The Mourning Cloak Butterfly (Nymphalis antiopoa ) is one of the earliest (and the latest) flying butterflies in its native range, which spans widely across temperate North America and Eurasia. These ...
We were out at Lafayette Reservoir a couple of weeks ago, looking for the bald eagle that wasn’t there. But there was a fair amount of butterfly action: a probable echo blue, some small hyperactive ...
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Mourning cloak butterflies, Nymphalis antiopa, have an immense geographic range that circles the globe in the northern hemisphere. They are native to North America, Europe and Asia, and in some areas ...
Submitted photo This mourning cloak butterfly seemed to pose for its photo taken during a morning woodland hike in March 2025. For me, spotting a butterfly on a sunny morning jaunt through the woods ...
It was consistently cold through most of January. Then it warmed the first days of February. I was standing on our deck looking across the creek into the pasture. An eastern phoebe was hawking insects ...
Cabin fever got you down? Looking for a harbinger-of-spring to lift your spirits? Hepatica … trailing arbutus … Persian speedwell … yellow-rumped warblers … spring peepers? Those would be nice. But ...
The thawing month of April holds many changes for us. The snow here at the start will be gone in the end. Ice-covered lakes and ponds of today will break free from the cold cover by late month. Many ...