It's Butterfly Time at Trail Wood

Trail Wood #57 Earl Plato

Teale’s Log end of March: “ Today we are off for the North Woods to search for the blue butterfly. Each year as March draws to a close and the earliest days of April arrive, Nellie and I wander along the mossy trails, in open glades, down the Old Woods Road, our eyes roving ahead and besides our paths, alert for a glimpse of the small gay insect that for us symbolizes the return of spring/ An elfin creature, it flies on diminutive wings of blue tinged with violet. Carl Linnaeus bestowed upon it the scientific name it still bears: Lycaenopsis argiolus. Commonly this early butterfly is known as the Spring Azure.
The dusky-hued Mourning Cloak butterfly hibernating as an adult appears even earlier in the year. We sometimes see it abroad during thaws late in Winter.’