Critter of the Month

by Connie Kent, photo by Robert Mumby

The New World Checkered Skipper Butterfly

New World Checkered Skipper

The photographer, new resident Robert Mumby, says, “‘Butterfly season’ is here. The New World Checkered Skipper was photographed on the dirt road just below the Manor, but with so many flowers in bloom on campus, there should be many butterflies, bees an other invertebrates that eat the pollen or eat those that come to the flowers.

Actually, so far I haven’t seen any caterpillars or butterflies in the gardens. I hope this isn’t because the landscapers use lots of pesticide.”