Last night the temperature only went down to low 40's - no ice on our little pond for the first time in a week or more (Good thing too - our forced air furnace...
Everyone: My report of important butterfly records for the Southern United States (California, Arizona and Nevada) went out to coordinator Jim Tuttle who...
Ken- One thing has always bothered me about the Season Summary process. Many of us do not always have the time to spread and ID all current year's specimens,...
Dave, You make a great point about not spreading and IDing specimens that were caught the previous season in time for the SS submission on Dec. 15th. This has...
ljiljana grkovich
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Jan 3, 2007 4:53 pm
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Alex, Dave, Ken- Some great ideas here! Yes, I send in old data whenever I find it. How about this record for Papilio mylotes, Ken: 1894, New Mexico....
Mike. Actually, there have been records published recently that were over sixty years old. I beliieve I am publishing a 1983 record this year. Ken Alex, Dave,...
Dave: Retroactive records can go in if they are county or state records or range extensions, or if identifications were held up for one reason or another. In...
Everyone: Sorry, NOT a butterfly country list! I meant a butterfly COUNT or butterflies "we saw "list. Relatively few records reported are really new for...
Due to a cancellation there are still two spots available on the SEABA Sonora Spring trip March 27 - 30 that will include a look at the San Carlos (on the...
Hi all. Who can tell me what the hibernacula of the overwintering larvae of Limenitis lorquini are like? Do they spin silk and attach the leaf to the stem of...
Hi all, Just wanted to let you all know...the Phoebis sennae are ovipositing in Long Beach still. On Sunday,Jan 7, I had a large 'alba' form ovipositing on...
Hi Richard, This was thrown together a couple of years ago. I can send more pictures later. http://www.utahlepsociety.org/archippusobsoleta.html Todd Todd L....
The SEABA meeting, on Tuesday, 16 January, at 7:00PM, at the Tucson Botanical Gardens Education Building, near Alvernon and Grant, will feature "Roundup in...
Hank Brodkin <hbrodkin@...> wrote: Architect Richard Lindstrom of Seattle, called Dr. Skippy by his friends because of his fascination for neotropical...
Jim Brock sent me the following correction below. An amazing place! And nothing beats having a pool to dive into after a hot sweaty slog in the forest! Hank...
Paul and everyone. Paul Opler asked me sometime ago how precipitation looks in the southern Sierra and east of the Sierra and in the White Mountains. At this...
A friend asked me where is the best place to see a Colorado Hairstreak? Having never seen one, it occurred to me I might be interested to the answer to that...
Fred Heath
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Jan 17, 2007 4:37 am
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Hi Fred, If you're willing to travel and visit us up here in Utah, I think I can help you. Population numbers of Hypaurotis crysalus citima have been somewhat...
Fred: In Arizona, Colorado Hairstreaks (Hypaurotis chrysalis intermedia) can be quite common in upper Oak Creek Canyon south of Flagstaff. A good spot in...
Fred, Colorado Hairstreaks are fairly routine in nearly all of New Mexico's mountains of medium height or greater. Sugarite Canyon State Park (east of Raton,...
On Jan 16, I was surprised to find a W. Pygmy Blue flying along the cliff top in the Santa Barbara area, despite the recent freeze-dry conditions. Nick Lethaby...
Rob Yaksich Pima County Natural Resources, Parks & Rec. Tucson Hi all - I am working with AZ Game & Fish in putting together a program about living with urban...
The only really good colony we came across was just south of Cortez, Colorado. We noticed a large stand of Gambel Oak just off US 666 ( I guess that is now...
Hank, I've seen them there also but then I've seen excellent pockets of them in a lot of places - Onion Saddle in the Chiricahuas, Turkey Creek on Mt. Graham, ...
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Jan 17, 2007 9:00 pm
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Jim, When you say rainfall do you mean rain. I mean are these "monsoon" driven? Or does anything wet count, sleet and snow too? Tom Horton ... them in a ... ...
I had good numbers of Colorado Hairstreak on Pinal Mountain near Globe Arizona in July of 2005. I did not visit Pinal Mt in July of 2006, but I believe Dave...
Tom, I mean winter moisture which probably affects leaf palatability the following spring when the eggs hatch. Not sure what affect this has overall and maybe...