Sighting for July 5, 2013

my first visit to another spot veteran butterflyers say is a shadow of its former self. the county has no money to mow/maintain the large field at the end of the trail- vegetation is chest high. and apparently has crowded out larval host plants over the yrs.it was pretty- hundereds of orange milkweeds in bloom, along with common milkweed, dogbane,, black eyed susan etc and nary a butterfly on them from 10-1130AM..it was hot but not too hot to preclude butterfly activitiy. wood nymphs were definitely staying low in the ground cover to avoid the sun.