Hi Richard, A Two-Tailed Swallowtail in LB would be significant, if not a record. Did
you actually id it? Good luck with your new offspring. Let us know how...
RE: TWO-TAILED SWALLOWTAIL in Long Beach The species is known from Los Angeles County, but a Long Beach record would be worthy of inclusion in the annual...
Hey Richard, With regards to your question and Ken's comment on producing a valid record for P. multicaudatus from your backyard: <<Anyone have any experience...
If any of you are going over to Mission for the Butterfly Festival or the NABA meet - Kim Garwood, President of the local chapter asked me to forward this: ...
Hi Todd, Ken, Mark and all, I will try to rear them to eclosure. The background color of the female did not have the 'orangy' cast to it as I have seen in...
Interesting. I'm very familiar with the El Dorado Nature Center (and in
fact enjoyed participating in its grand opening). I did much of my growing
up on the...
Hi Mark and all, I am not familiar with what Ash (Fraxinus ssp.) P. multicaudatus may use, but there are lots of one species in the park around the corner. I...
Richard: Have Todd or Jim Brock check out the larvae. I would love to verify this record and publish it. Some groups of similar species need confirmation...
Jane Lyons of Mindo Bird Tours set up our recent very successful butterfly trip to Ecuador. She is now going to be doing 2 butterfly trips a year. Here is...
Richard, Here in Northern Utah neighborhoods, P. multicaudatus uses Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica.) I don't know how far west that tree grows or if it...
Todd Stout
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Sep 2, 2004 12:21 pm
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All-- This morning at around 8:15, I found myself recently awakened. I lay down and tried to get back to sleep, but within minutes was disturbed by a very...
Brian, Nice shooting my young padowan! I think you were blessed with a gift from the fordi gods. I don't think 2 weeks cold is long enough for normal fordi to...
Todd Stout
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Sep 2, 2004 4:05 pm
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Is there a book out there that would help someone learn Arizona moths? I am growing very frustrated. The text I have available was published in 1905 and...
That does make sense. P. multicaudatus was occasionally seen and even collected at higher elevation along the San Andreas Fault on the north side of the San...
Ray There is unfortunately unsubstantiated records for multiculdatus from 2000 and 2001. One was by me and the other by Paul Spade who is a very quiet...
Hi everyone, Can someone please tell me, what is the native larval host plant of Battus philenor in southern NV? The USDA NRCS Plants Database shows no...
Thanks, Michael, Paul Spade was one of my teachers in the 1950s! He was in high school in the late 1940s, and I in junior high, so he is probably only about 5...
Hi Richard, Well, actually when I said "introduced", I wasn't referring to an
intentional introduction. I am, however, assuming that for a two-tailed to
get...
Regarding hostplants for PIPEVINE SWALLOWTAILS (Battus philenor philenor) in southern Nevada: See the Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 1980 (81). Volume...
Update: That female fordi is NOT perfect after all. While her wings are pristine in terms of shape/consistency, her right HW upperside is noticeably faded...
Guys, Wonderful stories! Once, in 1963, before we were married, Kit and I were walking up the dirt road in Temescal Canyon during a lunch hour from UCLA. We...
Well, my story is not anywhere near quite as interesting as all the others. First, in all my years in Arizona (including New Mexico) I have never seen a...
Stanley A. Gorodenski
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Sep 5, 2004 7:21 pm
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Everyone: There are two species groups I want to comment about: CHECKERED SKIPPER and WHITE CHECKERED SKIPPER (Pyrgus communis and albescens). Since we know...
Who here has observed any agave giant skippers recently? In my limited experience this year, numbers seem to be down from parasites and drought. Brian Banker...
Usually I do not see many Monarchs. Today I took a trip from Prescott to Seligman. For about a 10 mile stretch on old route 66 starting about 5 miles east of...
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