A molted primary feather - probably that of a Broadwinged Hawk - was on my lawn this morning. Molting old feathers and growing new ones commonly occurs soon after young of the year achieve independence.
A Waved Sphinx moth came to my lights last night. Larval hosts for this species include Ash and Oak.
The bright white egg masses of Dobsonflies decorate a mid-stream boulder. Each egg mass consists of 1000 or more ggs therefore some 18,000 larval Dobsonflies , known as Hellgrammites, hatched off this one rock and began their aquatic life, preying on invertebrates, tadpoles and small fish. As adults, dobsonflies do not feed. Hellgrammites are preyed n by fish.
John
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| Broadwinged Hawk feather |
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| Waved Sphinx moth |
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| Dobsonfly Egg Cases |
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