We visited Ann and Stefan at Board’s Honey Farm on Friday.  As usual, it was very informative and enjoyable.

Along the way we had to stop to take a few pix…

Pickerel Weed:

Big swamp between Hwy 524 and Restoule:

On Saturday we checked the maturity of the milkweed patch,

and found a huge crop of Milkweed Tussock Caterpillars skeletonizing the leaves of a single milkweed plant:

About 4 hours later, the top was gone and the colony had descended to the bottommost leaves of the same plant.

On a nearby Ash tree I saw this chrysalis of some sort of moth/butterfly.  We’ll keep an eye on it.

Although we’ve checked that site for Monarch chrysalises many times, we’ve yet to see one.  I wonder how far those Monarch caterpillars travel before attaching to something.