Hi everyone, Wayne Whaley and I went out Saturday to the House Range ~46 miles WSW of Delta, Millard County, Utah, to check out the flights of several desert ...
Hi, San Diego County buddies, This is precisely the spot where I believe you will find Papilio multicaudatus, which has been seen several times in SDC but...
Everyone: One thing I failed to mention is that while collecting members of the Mormon Metalmark complex for rearing purposes at Dry Canyon, Santa Barbara...
Hello, 1. The species is on no threatened or endangered lists as far as I know. 2. Someone take a voucher in San Diego County. 3. Send it to the California...
Everyone: One additional taxonomic implication of my current assessment that my green hairstreaks taken from relatively low elevations on the west slope of the...
I too have been seeing a strong flight of Sonoran Blues in my area as well. Yesterday I recorded about 8 individuals at Bear Divide Ranger Station (northern...
Hi Stan, Thanks for your note. I stand by my request that one [male] multicaudata be collected in San Diego County, and be deposited in the CAS collection in...
Hi Lynn and all, Yesterday afternoon I had to escape the "May Gray" maritime layer in San Diego and seek out the healing properties of the desert sunshine. I...
Thanks very much, Brett! One of the folks receiving copies of this reply would probably be interested in seeing your specimen, or photos of it. I would like a...
April 27 and 28 Hank and Priscilla Brodkin and from April 29 Hank Brodkin and Richard Bailowitz searched the Verde Valley near Cottonwood (VV)-27 through 29...
Ray and Brett: In my experience, P. multicaudatus in California is a tough butterfly to get in good condition. The historic ones I caught in the past two years...
Everyone: The primary purpose in my recent trip to the California White Mountains was to collect a male and a female pseudothoosa for illustration in the...
Hi Pete, Great to hear that you are finding 'Loki' Hairstreaks. We always consider them a find. There was a "great juniper die-off" on S2 a few years back...
Everyone: In the past, much has been said about the dangers of looking for butterflies. Dangerous roads, dangerous snakes, dangerous plants, poison oak, cliffs...
A friend and I spent 5 hours on Figueroa Mountain Road between the 11-4 this past Friday. It was a very pleasant day. The temperatures were in the mid to...
BrettL' The first record of a San Diego County multicaudatus (Two-Tailed Swallowtail) looks like that species at the TILS web site. It appears to be in fairly...
Everyone: Because of the Lake Isabella Dam situation and the need to be in Bakersfield by late this afternoon, I decided to check some nearby (from ...
Hi all, For some reason, these little critters decided to leave the hills and visit flowers in the yard today. Saw several of them, managed to get two...
Dear Mark, Thanks for the excellent directions to the Laguna Mt. Skippers in Mt. Palomar State Park along the French Valley Creek. Herb Clarke and I went down...
Fred Heath
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Fred, You're quite welcome, and I'm so pleased to hear that you were successful and that I'm not the only one who got to enjoy this pleasant surprise. Mark. ...
The Executive Council of the Lepidopterists' Society has just approved a very attractive offer for NEW members to the Society. Any non-member wishing to...
Hi all, FYI http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060508/sc_space/californiaseesworstbutterflies seasonin35years I have not been here for 35 years but activity does...
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Joanna: What I have seen so far this season is that some places in California are very very poor and other places are very very good, even a few miles from...
Everyone and Bob:: These counts meet at the Audubon Preserve at Weldon (right off Hwy. 155 near junction with Kelso Valley Road). Sometimes the initial meeting...
I'm cross posting this news link from TexasLeps, because it has me confounded once again. I don't know Art Shapiro personally, but I've long respected him and...
I'm with Ken. The deserts (Mojave and Colorado) had little rain November through February which seemed to affect the annuals adversely and this turn was ...
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A cursory look at Arizona: SE- Flowers are out in gardens. Numbers of species and individuals are way down. Central - Last week in the Verde Valley: Nectar...
Hi there, My name is Shannon Gray and I am looking for some help locating Erynnis propertius (the duskywing skipper) females for my dissertation work with...
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