Look at the beautiful sight Concord botonist Cherrie Correy saw last week near Gowing's Swamp. It's a Primrose Moth -- and it seems here to be contemplating a primrose. "Actually, there were several snoozing away in the daytime around the field," she wrote us. "They sleep away the daylight hours looking like a beautiful pink detail of the flower (but we would know better!), then get busy pollinating at dusk."
She has two public Picasa albums of our local flora/fauna/wild inspirations, one supporting the preservation effort for Gowing's Swamp, and the other as a walker's guide/calendar of bloom at Great Meadows. The Gowing's album is at: http://picasaweb.google.co
Cherrie is leading monthly walks at GM and the next is scheduled for Aug. 15 from 9-11. Meet her in the parking lot off Monsen Road.
See here for an article about the Primrose Moth: http://www.timesargus.com/article/20090726/FEATURES06/907260322/1015/FEATURES06
Photo: ©2009 Cherrie Corey
