This morning at 8:30, I had 2-3 scores of PM's flying around my gourds, but none landed. Instead they preferred the electronic antennas on top of the masts of sail boats. I counted about 25 on one mast, there were 3 sail boat masts they perched on. I have been having same numbers which landed on my colony for about 3 weeks on and off in the last weeks of August and September, photographing banded ones from 11 different colonies in Connecticut. The latest I had numbers like this was mid-August in prior years. Orhan Birol Shelter Island
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