Hi all, Just made a quick trip around our main trail. Several things flying. Conspicuously absent was Two-tailed Swallowtail which I've been seeing regularly...
In between appointments, I took my walk Famosa Slough Wednesday afternoon. Skippers were the order of the day there with the surprising emergence of the...
All, I did not intend to post again on this topic, but am starting to get quite a few emails asking "where is my book?", so thought another post might be...
Yesterday (Friday, 4/4) I visted the Granite Mountains, NE of Apple Valley, CA in search of P.indra fordi adults and earlies (plus whatever else might be...
This message was sent to Calbirds, but some of you might have known Herb Clarke. Herb was a photographer who did mostly bird books, but also did the...
Everyone interested in Mormon Metalmark taxonomy: Yesterday, I planned to collect at Frazier Park but the weather forecast there was lots of clouds, high winds...
Doug and others: Very sad news. Herb, Fred Heath and I shared several butterfly counts and car groups together. Another well known birder in my area, George...
Everyone: I collected along the Kern River and up the Sherman Pass Rd. (Tulare County, California) to 4200' and found butterfly activity interesting with total...
I just heard from Olga Clarke. Apparently Herb passed away peacefully in his sleep at 6:45 AM yesterday. Services will be held at Forest Lawn on Forest Lawn...
All, I was out on both Friday (4/4/08) and Saturday (4/5/08) looking for butterflies. On Friday I headed down to SE AZ and visited Box Canyon, Pima Co. and...
Hi All, On April 3-5, I searched for butterflies with John Dole, who was visiting the San Luis Obispo, CA area from North Carolina. John had a wish list of...
Everyone: One alternative view to the black metalmarks flying with Apodemia davenporti. A similar black phenotype has been collected at Corral Creek a few...
Hello Doug, Thank you for the notification of Herb Clarke's passing. I had occasion to meet him three years ago at the Anza Borrego Butterfly Count. He will be...
The title on the subject line is not my own invention, but it is so appropriate (under the circumstances), that I cannot refrain from using it. I also won't...
Mark, A MASTERPIECE WRITEUP!!! I think your post is right on, well stated, and next time let's take a freakin' helicopter. (You forgot to mention how good the...
Everyone: The long awaited Pelham Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (Checklist is not even in the title) arrived at my home today,...
Ken, all, I guess I will always feel the need to apologize for the ‘long awaited’ aspect of the catalogue. It was an arduous, barely endurable task to...
Hello, My wife and I will be visiting Southern Arizona next week in search of Leps to photograph. While our main focus will be butterflies during daylight...
Bob: Probably a saturnid - maybe in the genus Hemileuca. It would be easier to tell for a non-mother like me if you had a side view. Larvae of silk moths are...
I found about a dozen of these fairly large moth larvae yesterday (4/8) on junipers both Alligator Juniper (Juniperus deppeana) and Redberry Juniper (Juniperus...
Phil: Excellent black-lighting right now in the foothills of the Santa Catalinas -- try Molino basin. Likewise, Box Canyon in the Santa Rita can be good as...
Bruce Walsh
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Apr 9, 2008 6:18 pm
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Thanks for the responses to the larvae on Juniper. It is an Arctiid, and nr. Lophocampa argentata (Silver-spotted Tiger Moth). I've seen the adult moth at...
The next SEABA (SouthEast Arizona Butterfly Association) meeting will be on April 15, 2008 at the Tucson Botanical Gardens Education Room on Alvernon just...
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