A couple of friends asked if they could take a nature walk on my oak savanna restoration project yesterday, and of course thats all I needed as an excuse to go along and just spend a relaxing time enjoying the place versus tractor work or invasive work.
I have a small population of the Federally endangered Karner Blue Butterfly , which is in their first flight. They have two flights a year, do not migrate and the larvae's have one and only one host plant. Wild Lupine. No Lupine, no Karners.
It is always a treat for me to spot them flying but yesterday had a special treat when this male Karner followed me around and landed on my wheelchair several times along with my clothes and even my camera! lol.
The panoramic shot is the general area where the lupine is concentrated and the Karner population is the highest.
For reference I am sitting in my wheelchair looking down, he seemed to prefer landing on one of the tires.
A very interesting little butterfly with information here.
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Potatoes went in a week or two ago. They rolled in this morning to hill them. We've had very little rain this spring so there wasn't much change in the color of the soil as they made their passes.
