I'm sure you all have heard by now that the Memorial got flooded out with severe damage and is closed to the public according to the local newspaper. The road...
Everyone:: In the next few weeks many of us will be visiting the Tioga Pass region (east of Yosemite National Park) to look for butterflies. Jim Brock reports...
Greetings, Took me a little walk around the grounds today. The Lysides have arrived! Boyce Thompson Arboretum - Pinal County, 3 miles west of Superior....
Ken, How funny. I spent this past weekend at Saddlebag Lake and was preparing a trip report later today. I was there on Friday, Saturday and Sunday - I ...
On my 14 mile, 35 minute drive to work, through Surprise, Sun City, Peoria, Glendale and Phoenix I saw 15-20 large sulphurs. They weren't there yesterday. ......
In addition to the Lysides and Cloudless Sulphurs invading southern Arizona this week, I'm seeing Phoebus agarithe (Large Orange Sulphur) in amongst them as...
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Hello All: I have just returned from El Salvador after an extremely successful butterfly trip. One of the highlights of the trip was to discover two colonies...
Hey Jim and all, I wonder if any came to so. CA also. We had a lot of tropical stuff from down your way. We are expecting more. Richard James Long Beach, CA ...
Everyone: I had reported yesterday that a fire started in the Piutes. Today's Bakersfield newspaper states that this fire is actually in the Kelso Valley area,...
Went to the Hassayampa River 10 mile miles south of Wickenburg, Maricopa Co...again. Saw the following: Fiery Skipper - 20-25 Orange Sulphur - 15-20 Common...
There are still places open on the Southeast Arizona Butterfly Association's trip to southern Sonora next month: On September 23 - 26 a SEABA members only trip...
Butterfliers, Bill Bouton and I visited Sycamore Canyon to look for butterflies on 7/30. We arrived at the canyon about 9:00 and butterflied until about 1:30....
Dear Lepsters, Passing on a report from Matt Heindel of Carlsbad, CA. On 5 August, he (and family) observed and photographed a White Angled-Sulphur in Portal,...
We may be headed for a massive Snout invasion similar to the one that has gained so much notoriety in Texas. Yesterday along Ruby Road in Santa Cruz County...
All: I was in Sonora, Mexico (Hwy 16 to Yecora about 60% of the way from AZ to the Sinaloa border) last week (mostly birding) but looked at a few butterflies...
Just a quick note to let the moth hunters know that the Gloveria arizonensis (Lasiocampidae) flight has started in Santa Clarita (Northern L.A. Co., CA) today....
Nothing too outstanding, but here is the last weeks worth. August 8, 2006 Rio Grande, at bridge, Belen, Valencia Co, NM. Pyrgus communis/albescens Zerene...
Greetings! I'm a graduate student researching the population dynamics of checkerspots. Recently I've become interested in Chlosyne lacinia (Bordered Patch) as...
Dear Lepsters, We had a Titan Sphinx (Aellopos titan) [ MONA 7849 ], in the yard today, nectaring mainly on Verbena pulchella. Bruce Walsh was kind enough to...
I took two on the steppes of the southern end of the mule mountains first week of April, 2005. They were the black form, very cool. Saw about 10 over 5 days,...
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 5:35 PM Subject: Re: [SoWestLep] Chlosyne lacinia (Bordered Patch) Info This is somewhat though not directly related to this...
Everyone: I spent the weekend (August 12-13, 2006) collecting in the Tioga Pass area (mostly Saddlebag Lake and the ridge SE of Mt. Conness) with Howard...
Hi Chris: I can't access the picture of your Condalia feeders, they are almost certainly the Notodontid moth Cargida pyrrha [ MONA 7964 ], see species #22 at ...
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I participated in SEABA's annual Portal count this past weekend. Not as many bugs as last year. I didn't get as many pictures as last year. The ones I did...
This is exactly what has stripped my three sizeable gray thorns down to sticks. There are literally hundreds of these caterpillars on the shrubs and on the...
Howdy all! Today I visited Frazier Mountain summit at 8000' (Eastern Ventura Co., just north of L.A.Co.) to see what was flying. Conditions were sunny and warm...
Chris: Your fall flying skippers should be Hesperia colorado fall flying segregate. Ken Howdy all! Today I visited Frazier Mountain summit at 8000' (Eastern...
I will be visiting friends in Las Vegas Sep 1-4. I don't expect to have much time forbutterflying, but I would like to get in at least one session. I would...