Komoko P.P., Part 2:

After leaving "The Ponds" trail area, we parked off Gideon Drive for a longer walk along wooded trails and through meadows.

The weather lured some reptiles into the sunshine, including this Common Garter Snake!

A highlight was finding about a dozen Bruce Spanworm Moths. Male moths are light brown with a one inch wing span. After mating in the fall, females crawl up and deposit their eggs singly in the trunk and branches of host trees. Overwintering eggs turn bright orange in colour and hatch in late April or May, about the same time that the leaf buds begin to open.

https://www.maine.gov/dacf/mfs/forest_health/insects/bruce_spanworm.htm

The male Bruce Spanworm Moths were very active, probably attracted by the phermones of the wingless females. 

A late flying Clouded Sulphur also made an appearance earlier in the week on a sunny day. This species will overwinter at the larva and chrysalis stages, depending upon their age once winter approaches.