Leader: Rick Borchelt
Lecture: Thursday, September 11, 7-9 pm (Woodend Nature Sanctuary)
Field Trip: Saturday September 13, 10 am-3 pm, location TBD (rain date September 14)
Lecture: members $24, nonmembers $32
Lecture & Field Trip: members $48, nonmembers $68
As if the multitudes of Sachems weren’t confusing enough, early autumn in the mid-Atlantic brings second broods of small, brown, often poorly-marked skippers – Crossline, Swarthy, and the infamous “three witches” – Northern Broken-dash, Dun, and Little Glassywing. Join us as we tick off the ID skills required for these “little brown jobs” of the butterfly world, and the come with us into the field to test our knowledge, but where we will learn that there is no shame in leaving an ID at “sp.” for these small, dull-colored species. We’ll begin on the Choate Mine Trail at Soldiers Delight NEA northwest of Baltimore and end at the community gardens at the Howard County Conservancy. We should have an abundance of look-alikes to pore through, and might see the seldom-encountered Leonard’s Skipper. As an added bonus we could end the field trip with a stop at the nearby Woodstock Snoball Stand! This is the last of three Butterfly Boot Camps. REGISTER.