Erora laeta - The early hairstreak
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2023 8:05 pm
Finally found this difficult to find butterfly. Had been looking each May for the past 3 years, and this year I was fortunate to locate them on two dates. The first time I saw both a male and the more beautiful female. A couple of days later I saw only a single male. These tiny leps feed on the American beech, so you have to search in the vicinity of the host, and they have a habit of coming down from the trees in the afternoon to sip minerals from dirt roads. There are only a very few locations in Ontario that the early hairstreak has been sighted, and its only about a two week window in May.
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