With this male sachem I have seen 24 species of butterfly for the month of June here at Foulkeways. Last June I saw 8 species - remember how much rain we had?
Corn cockle. Blooming in our new meadow, and Mother must have planted that seed.
The purple conflower is just stating to bloom, and for me this signals the start of the meadow season.
Tiger swallowtail. With this magnificent butterfly, I will say farewell to June. I hope we get some rain soon. I will be back in about 10 days.
The first step in "making honey" is removing the wax with a hot knife.
Removing the wax, up close.
The centrifuge. Any pollen that remains in the frame and is returned to the hive.
Frames go into the centrifuge.
Honey comes out of the centrifuge into a colander to remove any large bits of wax.
Honey is strained before going into gallon jugs,
Here is the honey from the Foulkeways hives. In all they expect to make about 70 gallons today. But because of the drought they will probably not collect honey again.
Stomping down the grass, getting ready to get the honey from the hives.
Opening the hive.
Full of honey, and heavy.
A bee brush was used for geting out the bees.
These days our beekeeper uses a leaf blower to blow out the bees.
Look at all those bees!
Foulkeways supers are loaded on the truck - Next stop HPONEY!
These , I think, are two bumble bees in my garden.
This I think, is a carpenter bee, which has a larger head and short hairs, or no hair on the abdomen.
A honey bee 
A black swallowtail buttefly in my garden. Was she there to lay eggs on the bronze fennel? Since I will be going on vacation on Sunday I did not check for eggs, but I will be looking for caterpillars upon my return.
I saw this silver-spotted skipper in my yard.
Prairie rose
Buckeye
Male familiar bluet damselfly
Dogbane leaf beetle
Clouded sulphur
Great Spangled Fritillary seen on the way home.
Here is a grey hairstreak on clover. This is why I love clover. It was a good afternoon for butterflies and for this butterfly lover.
Banded Hairstreak
The banded hairstreakk crawled under the milkweed and rested there, out of the hot sun.
Northern Broken Dash
Looking up at a honeylocust tree from the bench.
Dun skipper
The wild bergamot is starting to bloom and will soon transform the meadow.
In the meadow this morning, I saw this eastern box turtle.
Eastern tailed-blue. This male perches on the clover.
Little glassywing. Easy to identify when you see the white patch just below the antennal club.
This is a female eastern amberwing. I would love to see a male.
Orange sulphur. It was windy, so this one was resting.
A Foulkeways trip to Chanticleer. We had a rainy day, but still saw some wonderful views. The flowers will get a separate entry.
