Butterfly sighting
| May 3 2014 |
Randy Powers
Location: Musser Lake, Chequamegan Forest
Eastern Comma 
Mourning Cloak 
The Infant 
The Infant 
The Infant |
★ = New county photo record |
These sightings are submitted by butterfly enthusiasts across Wisconsin.
Gusty windy day, more clouds than sun. From cloud openings sun revealed itself only for a few minutes throughout the day, barely reaching fifty degrees! Forest roads still have some snow piles in various locations along the edges. Some fire lanes are rutted and impassable. One fire-lane to a remote lake was deeply rutted at the entrance, flooded in the middle and I walked through two foot deep snow at the back end to get to the lake.
One of the earliest lepidoptera to appear in the spring, in northern Wisconsin is a moth, the Infant Geometer, Reliably so, it marks virtually every year, the beginning of the Lepidopteran season, usually preceding any early butterflies! One battered Morning Cloak & one Eastern Comma ( Fr. Rd 130 ), three Infant Geometer Moths ( 1-Gates Rd, 2-Riley Road for a five -hour day of driving & walking.