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Thanks so much to Peter and David for your answers to my butterfly question.
David, you caught me being lazy about plant ID ("hmm, it's a weedy plant,
yellow ray flower, must be a hawkweed"). I'm sure you're right that the
yellow-flowered plant filling this meadow is the fall dandelion. (The seed
heads are a giveaway!) Peter, thanks to the photo links you sent, I'm sure
these are clouded sulphurs flitting around this meadow. They do appear to be
nectaring from the flowers, but thanks to the links you sent I'm guessing
that they're primarily attracted to the large amount of clover also growing
in this field. This combination of ordinary weed and common butterfly is
utterly charming, particularly as the numbers of butterflies just seem to
keep increasing day by day. There are certainly hundreds of flowers; there
are easily dozens of butterflies and could be many more because they are
always in motion and impossible for me to count. I wish I could take a
picture that would do the scene justice, but alas I'm sure I can't.
Wild Flora in Birch Hil
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