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June 13, 2016 by Wren Smith

Trails from the Bent Twig Trail: The Cycle Continues

They’re back!  The spicebush butterflies have been laying their eggs on the spicebush, Lindera benzoin and sassafras trees Sassafras albidum on the Bent Twig Trail and elsewhere. Some of those eggs have […]

Filed Under: Blog, Tales from Bent Twig Tagged With: Bent Twig, butterflies, butterfly, caterpillars, Sassafras, Spicebush, spicebush swallowtail

September 7, 2015 by Wren Smith

Tales from the Bent Twig Trail: Learning to See

Learning to see involves knowing how and where to look. It requires developing a mental template, or the term I prefer, a searching image. I started to understand this concept […]

Filed Under: Blog, Tales from Bent Twig Tagged With: Bent Twig, butterfly, Caterpillar, instar, larva, Sassafras, Spicebush, spicebush swallowtail

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