SPRING IS SLOWLY COMING THIS YEAR

Hello, We finally are seeing some new emergent butterflies, however quite slowly I might add. It seems that this particular spring is very late in coming with it being cold for the most part. I do not think that we have had an excess of rain, but more likely a slight lack of moisture lately. Another problem I see is degradation of habitat from utilities cutting everything to the ground. Power line cuts seem to usually be good areas to find butterflies and many are like Mars now. Where I usually get Spring Azures is a County Park and has had about 10 acres of everything  (brush, vines etc.) except the trees run through a tree chipper. Were the eggs and overwintering butterfly pupa chipped as well? Makes me wonder! Here are a couple Spring Azure pix, Denis