Not many Snouts this year.
That ditch is amazing, in year's past I've seen maybe 10 different species frolicking along that ditch on the same day. Years past I think my eyes saw better and that may have helped raise the BF variety count.
It really is in the middle of nowhere, when corn is planted you can't see a rural house in any direction, with soybeans you can ascertain clumps of trees far away interspersed w/ the fields, the clump may signify a farmhouse may be there.
I think the site's isolation is one reason it has successfully maintained a significant wildflower and butterfly ecosystem over all these years, I first found it when I was a field scout for an agronomic company in the mid 80's.
The ditch is like 6 to 10 feet deep w/ steep sides so I usually go accompanied by wife and dog. Note the absence of commercial or residential building. The red lobelia ditch runs south on the left, the way Deby is facing. Another ditch runs between fields west, which is to the right (where Plato wants to explore).
