Hi everyone: It's been 20 years since my Kern County annotated checklist of butterflies appeared in the Journal of the Lepidopterist's Society. Jim Brock and...
SEABA is going to be experimenting with some butterfly watching opportunities that are shorter in time and do not demand strenuous physical activity. The first...
All: I spent an hour in the La Cumbre Peak area of the Santa Ynez Mountains (above Santa Barbara) on Saturday. I saw a number of common species plus a Northern...
Lethaby, Nick
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Jun 9, 2003 6:08 pm
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We were in San Diego County butterflying for 8 1/2 days, May 25 through the morning of June 2. The places we visited include: Culp Valley & Montezuma Vista...
Jeanette - Kenn Kaufmann will be the keynote speaker and present a sparrow workshop. Also there will be a butterfly field trip with Kenn as a guest co-leader, ...
All: Spent some more time up on Camino Cielo looking at butterflies. Numbers are way down from last year, especially of hairstreaks and checkerspots. Apart ...
Lethaby, Nick
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Jun 13, 2003 11:58 pm
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Dear Butterfliers, Due to various complications there will NOT be a June Meeting. Note that we will be changing our day AND location, resuming our meetings on...
Hi Nick, Thanks for sending this very interesting list. I have 2 comments, based on many years living in southern California. First, the non-overwintering...
I was on East Camino Cielo last weekend and may even have seen and chatted with Nick (if he was the fellow with the butterfly net walking down the middle of...
Hi Doug, Nice pix! jpg-11 is Ochlodes agricola, and I believe that jpg-13 is also. The view of the latter, showing the dorsal surface in shadow, could be ...
The blue spots on the Lady did appear small so I think this explains it. In terms of the 'Dotted' Blues, I saw some last summer on the road to Figueroa...
Lethaby, Nick
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Jun 16, 2003 2:50 pm
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Hi my name Greg i am looking for breeders 0r people who know about Papilios multicaudata so I can Photograph them if any info you know of I would be most...
[I guess my previous post was lost, so here it goes again] Nick: A certain percentage of Painted Ladies have blue centers in their HW ocelli, sometimes rather...
All, I spent this weekend visiting the Fresno Dome region of Madera and Mariposa counties, on the west slope of the Sierras just south of Yosemite. It's a...
I suspect destruction of Asclepias habitat, as we see in Orange County. I too have seen no monarchs (nor queens) in my area this summer. -Bob Allen ... Bob L....
One lone Monarch reported from Frazier Peak on June 13. Not many other species on the wing that day, either, though it was a glorious day. Mark Walker....
Adam: Thanks for the post. These notes: I could not access your photos on my computer just right now. I don't know if yours and mine were incompatible or...
... Thanks Mark. The northward migratory drive of monarchs peters out by mid-June each year. Since it is now mid-June and almost no monarchs have arrived in...
Howdy, Just returned from watching butterflies in so. California. Monarchs were indeed scarce. Monarch sightings... Kernville June 2 Lubken Canyon June 5...
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Jun 17, 2003 3:27 pm
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Hi everyone: While south of Lake Tahoe along Hwy. 88 just inside the California state line between Woodford, Alpine County, CA. and Minter, Nevada...last June...
... The various e-mail systems 'round the 'net truncated Adam's URL's. Highlight & copy one of his URL's, paste it into your web browser's location field and...
... FWIW - We usually get tons of queen butteflies in Orange County, but not until July & August. June is too early for us. Bob L. Allen bugbob@... ...
June 14, 15 and 16 SEABA held their firs Volunteers Only Field Trip. We did the White Mountains in east-central Arizona and Montezuma Canyon in west-central...
... You should seem them before I scale them down for the web! But it's actually pretty easy to get photos like these today; you need the right equipment: ...
The Mt. Graham Field Trip will be held on July 19 instead of July 12. Details will follow soon in the next issue (July - August) of the Arizona Skipper or on...