Harvester Butterfly

Hi, Today is a day of very  mixed emotions as our long time best friend, Buttercup our Golden Retriever, passed away. She will be missed immensely. The evening that we buried her, here on our farm, it was very humid and into the upper eighties at six PM. Everything went well with the burial and after, while walking back to the house, a Harvester Butterfly landed on my son's forearm. We were both quite sweaty and the Harvester stayed on him for almost the hundred yards back to the house. I picked up my camera and took a dozen shots. Finally my son brushed it off and away it went. I have never seen nor expected to see this butterfly here as I have never seen Woolly Aphids, their caterpillar host food. The larvae of the small, uncommon harvester butterfly are the only strictly carnivorous butterfly caterpillars in the United States. I usually have to go to Lancaster County or Delaware to see one of these. A very mixed emotion day for sure. My best to you, Denis