Jug Bay Butterfly Addendum

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Oops. Gail Frantz reminded me by e-mail I forgot all about the
six-legged birds we saw at Jug Bay and Merkle:

Spring Azure
Juvenal's Duskywing
Tiger Swallowtail
Eastern Comma
Zebra Swallowtail
Mourning Cloak

I know virtually nothing about butterflies. Gail taught me more about
them today than I ever knew. I commented that the Duskywing was almost
as nondescript as a Bachman's Sparrow. I'm also wondering, is it really
named after the ancient Roman satirist Juvenal, or was it just a young
Duskywing? (The one butterfly book I own has disappeared, so I'm totally
in the dark.)

At any rate, checking out the butterflies certainly adds interest to
birding, especially when the birds are slow, so I'm going to have to
look into this more.

Steve Sanford
tanager@bcpl.net
Randallstown, MD

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