Yesterday a group of us saw our first butterfly of 2003 in Sabino Canyon, Tucson - an American Snout Libytheana carinenta. ... Hank Brodkin Carr Canyon,...
Glad to see some activity on SoWestLep! My first butterfly of the year was the same one I've been seeing in my yard since mid-December. Anise Swallowtail....
Send me the data for the Anise Swallowtail and Cabbage White. Both break recorded state records for EARLY DATE. I need locality, county and exact date seen....
My Cabbage Whites are year round here in San Diego, and I had several on January 2nd in National City. I also saw 4 more Cloudless Sulphers today while on my...
... My First butterflies for the new year (on Jan. 1, 2003 in a garden I care for in Pasadena just east of San Marino) were a slightly faded Gulf Fritillary...
Dear John: You'll be more flabbergasted to hear that your Marine Blue is also an early record, beating the previous EARLY record by 11 days. Records for such...
Doug and others: Many of you may not be aware that the Lepidopterist's Society publishes four issues of NEWS about butterflies and moths with color and black...
Hi All, I'm new enough at this that I don't yet know flight periods. Looking at some of my sources this seems out of place, and there have been several posts...
Not sure if that's a record but it's close to one. My family and I picked one up just about that date a few years ago, but forgot to send it in to season...
Well, with all of the warm San Diego temperatures the past 4 days, I had to go out and check some things out. I went over to the Famosa slough, which is a...
My first 2003 butterflies were a couple of Gulf Frits (as well as the last of 2002). While the pupas on my vine are all dark & presumably dead (?) there are...
With all these emails on the first butterfly of the year, I should report that I have my first lifer of 2003 last night on Redington Pass (just outside of...
Bruce Walsh
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Jan 6, 2003 6:05 pm
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My first butterflies seen for 2003 were spotted in the hills above Claremont, California (LA Co.) on the unseasonably warm day of January 5th: 1 Papilio...
Bill Gendron: Thanks for the Echo Blue records. Jan. 5 is the new EARLY record, 15 and 30 December are also significant dates. 15 December would actually be...
Thanks Ken for keeping us all posted--makes the year start with more excitement...... Cheers, Wanda ... -- Wanda Dameron LAAS, SBC, Southwest Bird Study Club ...
Well, I had to go into the field today to begin my 2003 biology consulting season. I was in San Juan Capistrano performing some survey work. Because of the...
... Ken, Interesting, but a January 1 "first" is just a part of a continuum that carries on most of the year. Then you should also count it as a "latest" ...
Dear Mike, I have found Panoquina errans commonly in late November and early December in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, and it probably flies through the end of the...
paul opler
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Jan 8, 2003 4:52 pm
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Michael: White Checkered Skipper (Pyrgus albescens) and Acmon Blue (Icaricia acmon) are both EARLY records. SARA (=Pacific) ORANGETIP may be but a 31 December...
John and others: Good point...at same point it becomes rather arbitrary. Marine Blue already recorded before on Dec. 31 so your record ties it. The Marine...
Ken, I'm not sure about the splitting of Anthocaris sara from A. stella; but I can tell you that here in Utah where the Basin and Range Province approaches the...
Todd Stout
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Jan 9, 2003 6:27 am
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Dear Todd, Thanks for forwarding the message. Finding both thoosa (=inghami) together with browningi is a major discovery! I would like to have a few ...
paul opler
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Jan 9, 2003 6:09 pm
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Hi Ken, Actually stella males can usually be told from sara males by thier white cream background color, contrasted with white background color of sara. The...
paul opler
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Jan 9, 2003 6:18 pm
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Dear Paul, Happy New Year!! Per John Burn's (I think that is his name) paper on the White and Common Checkered Skippers, we assume that the all that we see...
Heath, Fred
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Jan 9, 2003 9:36 pm
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Actually we have both Pyrgus albescens and Pyrgus communis here in SoCal. There is a bit of elevational separation but nothing rock solid. Examining external...
Jane: What County is Vetter Mountain in? Which buckwheat was your small sized blue associated with? Another difficult member of this group is THE DOTTED BLUE...
Todd: Those are really great observations...have you passed on that information to Ray Stanford and Paul Opler?. Paul is working on the taxonomy of the Sara...
Paul: Thanks for adding more details on how to tell these two similar orange-tips apart. For those of you who don't know it, Paul Opler is studying our...
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