Bill: The common name for Pieris (marginalis, napi of some) venosa is the Large Veined White. Ken Davenport Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 11:11 AM Subject:...
Greetings, While pulling buffel grass today as part of a countywide volunteer removal program I saw a few Desert and Sara Orangetips at the edge of the...
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Hi all, I made a short stop at Jacumba today. Sunny and 65 degrees, but little gusty... Sara Orangetip x 2 (I did not see them last year. It's a good sign!) ...
I finally finished the Pima Orange-tip eclosion video. The YouTube URL link is below. I also had some high-resolution Papilio indra phyllisae pupation time...
Hi all, Had a chance today to move around Laguna Mountains and Otay Mountain today. Funereal Duskywing Anise Swallowtail Pale Swallowtail Sara Orangetip White?...
Everyone: I did a combined scouting and collecting trip of the southern Sierra (March 5th) and will pass on some NEWS here as well. Onyx, Kern County: The San...
Everyone: A number of unusual and remarkable things are known from the southern San Joaquin Valley. These include mammoths and mastodons and sabre-toothed...
Ken, Credit for relocating the valley cethura popualtions goes to Jerry Powell. I think he and some others stopped at the saltbush plot where I - 5 meets...
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All, Last year I sent out a message about finding Euproserpinus, Hyles lineata (white lined sphinx), and Proserpinus clarkiae (Clark's day sphinx) all flying ...
Paul and others, It seems to be a good year for Sonoran Blues down your way. Please try for records from Madera and Fresno counties in the next couple of ...
Hi all, Too many places I want to check. So, I drove around southern San Diego County all day today. Got too windy after 2:00 PM. <Otay Mountain> Desert...
All: In general area of Surf and Lompoc in N. Santa Barbara County, California today, I saw the following: Anise Swallowtail - 1 Sara Orangetip - 4+ White sp....
Hi Nick and others, Sounds like a good spring season is beginning for you there! Just to update my "hitlist" of expected new butterfly species for Santa...
I think it's going to be very interesting to see what the effect of the Zaca fire was on the interior mountains. Basically the areas of high (>5000 ft) montane...
Greetings all, Exciting monarch news for us here in the southwest. A wild Arizona monarch was recovered at El Rosario, Michoacan. Actually its tag, not the...
Hi all, Today, Western Tiger Swallowtail was flying around in my office parking lot in Sorrento Valley. Looks like the weather is not going to be good this...
News item: the city of Brisbane, CA, located on the NE side of San Bruno Mountain a few miles south of San Francisco, has approved a housing development in the...
On March 15 SEABA had a field trip to Patagonia Lake State Park. The temperature was in the low 70's clear to partly cloudy. We were there from 9:00AM to...
Hi all, Last Saturday, I had a chance to go up to Otay Mountain for 30 minutes. Cloudy & windy at 57 degrees. Yet I was able to see; Painted Lady Gabb's...
Everyone, The following document was published late last week: Pelham, Jonathan P. March 15, 2008. A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and...
Hi all, I am looking for someone to lead this Saturday's 9:30AM butterfly walk at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum. While bflys are still fairly slow, there are...
Hello, My wife and I have a 2008 quest: to see and photograph both Erora quaderna (Arizona Hairstreak) and Erora laeta (Early Hairstreak) in the wild. (For...
Everyone: Collecting and watching turned up these butterflies in the southern Sierra Nevada (Kern County, CA) on March 19th: 13 miles south of Hwy. 178 at...
If you are going to be in AZ in the summer, the White Mountains are an excellent place to find Erora quaderna. We had numerous fresh individuals along HWY 191...
They are really common in April on Ft. Huachuca (near Sierra Vista, AZ)in the Huachuca Mountains in Garden Canyon. They can be found nectaring on the flowers...
All: On Sunday along the Aliso loop trail I saw the following: Sara Orangetip - Common Mylitta Crescent - 1 Painted Lady - Common W. Coast Lady - 1 Sonoran...
Ladies are doing thier annual migration right now throughout San Diego County, CA. I've been counting about 40 a minute, and I was in various parts of the...