Flower Hill Farm Retreat https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com B&B, Retreat, Vacation Rental Flower Hill Farm in Williamsburg MA Western Mass 20 minutes outside of Northampton MA 413-268-7481 Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:49:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.13 183435305 Moths in the Gardens https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/moths-in-the-gardens/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=moths-in-the-gardens https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/moths-in-the-gardens/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:49:58 +0000 https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/?p=6867 Flower Hill Farm Families of Moths 2014 inside and in the gardens, starting with the most majestic moths.   Saturniidae   Luna Moths and Cecropia Moths have an easy life of sleeping all day and then waking at dusk to fly out into layers of dark in search of mates.     Sphingidae  I confess to […]

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]]> https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/moths-in-the-gardens/feed/ 4 6867 Beauties of the Night ~ Cecropia Moth https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/beauties-night-cecropia-moth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beauties-night-cecropia-moth https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/beauties-night-cecropia-moth/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:13:20 +0000 https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/?p=6296 Last September, a fellow Lepidoptera enthusiast, Tor, had given me a remarkable gift. Several twigs with Cecropia Moth cocoons attached. When I placed the leaf coated, brown silky cocoons all together in a pewter pitcher, I had a uniquely created cocoon bouquet.  Most bouquets quietly die over days or weeks but not this one. Set in a […]

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]]> https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/beauties-night-cecropia-moth/feed/ 7 6296 Beauties of the Night ~ Luna Moth https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/beauties-night-luna-moth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beauties-night-luna-moth https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/beauties-night-luna-moth/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2014 02:35:59 +0000 https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/?p=6246    There is beauty hidden within darkness. Beauties of the night are curious creatures and none more than the stunning Luna Moth. We humans are creatures of habitual repetition and it is a reliable assumption that by nightfall most people are indoors with lights on and doors closed to the outside world. When we accidentally or […]

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]]> https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/beauties-night-luna-moth/feed/ 7 6246 Flower Hill Farm BUTTERFLIES OF 2011 ~ GRAND FINALE https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/flower-hill-farm-butterflies-of-2011-grand-finale/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flower-hill-farm-butterflies-of-2011-grand-finale https://staging.caroldukeflowers.com/flower-hill-farm-butterflies-of-2011-grand-finale/#respond Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:43:00 +0000 http://duke.itabix.com/flower-hill-farm-butterflies-of-2011-grand-finale/ The series Flower Hill Farm Butterflies  (all sightings and most photos are from 2011 with exception to a few from other years) along with a few other Lepidoptera . . . comes to its final metamorphosis . . . and end . . .  just as many buds are beginning to unfurl and reports of […]

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