RE:Lomatium californicum This plant is toxic to Southern CA. larvae. Would highly suggest getting seeds of Cymopterus Terebinthina. Ken H [Non-text portions of...
Doug, Why were all messages removed for a period of appx two hours last night between 9 and 11 or thereabouts? Just seemed mighty strange. You can delete this;...
All, This email that I sent on June 14 was erroneous. I have not taken nokomis nitocris in late June. It was late July, though the best time to find males is...
End of June Mothing report: The late season seems to have extended into summer, with emergences/flights running 2-3 weeks behind last year in my estimation. I...
Had a Cloudless Sulfur, Phoebis sennae marcellina, fly by in my backyard today in Monterey Park, 6 miles east of downtown LA. Anyone else seeing any in LA...
Matt Sadowski has reported to me that he and a collegue have had independent sightins of Pipevine along the coastal area of North Island Naval Air Station over...
... Jane, I have come to expect to see Cloudless Sulphurs every year when the Gold Medallion trees (Cassia leptophylla) come into bloom. I planted two forms ...
All, I spent an afternoon at La Mirada Creek Park and La Mirada Regional Parks, La Mirada, CA today (Jul 3). Temps were a fair and completely sunny 82 or so,...
Everyone: Yesterday, July 3rd, about a dozen participated in the Sequoia National Monument/Sherman Pass Rd. butterfly count. Collecting is legal in Sequoia...
Everyone: This is the list of butterflies found along north fork of the Kern River (N. of Calkin's Flat and from Sherman Pass Road at junction with Kern River...
Everyone: Brian had recently asked me (personal communication) some information related on where to find Two-Tailed Swallowtails in southern California and to...
... As a child in the late 60's I spent summers at Kalispell, Montana (northwest Montana). In Kalispell the Two-tailed Tiger Swallowtail was a common butterfly...
Paul, This is also the case with P. multicaudatus populations in Wyoming cities along the I-80 belt from Evanston to Green River, Rock Springs and onto ...
Great to hear. It's just like our L.A. area parks and city halls that have selected sycamore to be de rigeur for these public areas. Hello rutulus! Brian...
There is a nice colony at Sea World in San Diego. I do not know if they are a breeding colony there or not. They are abundant in the Fall. Andrew Kim ...
Cloudless Sulphurs are not very cold tolerant, so they are one of a number of species (Painted Lady, Red Admiral) which expend northward in favorable years and...
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Yes, I took my very first one at the San Diego Zoo when I was 13. I had to scale a large hill behind an exhibit and risk being busted, but when you are a dumb...
Everyone: Sherman Pass had a major forest fire in late July and August in 2002. Lower elevations burned in an extremely hot fire and the chaparral and oak...
To whom may concern: Good day, this is Sandy Liang, I am Dr. Leski's co-worker in Taiwan. I really look for Dr. Michael Leski urgent, I believe this is the...
I visited these Mts. July 5-7. Painted ladies (cardui) were common at all elevations. I went as high as 11,000 feet. On a trip to the same locations in Aug...
Hi all, I wondered what it was flying eratically in my garden yesterday. When it alighted on the Butterfly Bush, it looked like Vanessa atalanta (Red...
Hi all, I saw the first Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) two days ago flying rapidly NW through the El Dorado Nature Center in Long Beach, CA. It was flying...
Congratulations, Richard! That is a catch (film or net) of a lifetime. I would have to go back and count, but I believe that may be the 13th hybrid ever seen....
Data for posted photo of hybrid: CALIF.: Ventura Co.: Thousand Oaks. 980 Ft. 3 April 1973. Ex-2nd instar larva on Urtica holosericea and Althaea rosea. This...
Way to go Richard! I've been waiting my whole life to see one of those (and haven't). It's extremely rare like one of those broad bordered mourning cloaks you...
Richard: My brother Mike collected such a specimen some years ago. In a similar vein...I collected a possible Desert "Black" Swallowtail (Papilio poyxenes...