Red Admirals are on the Move - The Hardwick Gazette

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Red Admirals are on the Move - The Hardwick Gazette

HARDWICK – Have you seen this butterfly? The Red Admiral (Vanessa Atalanta), because of it’s 50 or so larval host plants in the nettle family (Urticaceae), is found worldwide, and is one of our most abundant butterfly species in the U.S. They are fast flyers, moving rapidly out of the South in the spring, on a good year making it up to Vermont as early as the first of May. A number of butterfly species migrate to some degree, pushing their range…