I'm just a hobbyist and don't know my scientific names very well. Would it be possible to include the common name when we are talking about butterflies? ...
Hi, We're doing another walk on Sunday at our place. Last week, on our 'inaugural official walk' we counted 23 species and over 300 individuals. We have put...
Andy, Jon, Mike, Kim, and rest: This is HUGE and will continue to grow exponentially with everyone's help. Congratulations and keep up the herculean effort!! ...
Just a reminder that Jim Brock will be leading our butterfly walk at Boyce Thompson Arboretum tomorrow 9:30AM. Dave Powell's walk last weekend found the...
I initially believed it to be gabbii, but have been going back and forth a bit. This lep was encountered Saturday, 3 May, on the Oak Canyon trail of the...
Matt This one would be difficult but for the locality data. The only Acastus Checkerspot subspecies in San Diego County is neumoegeni which has an obsolecent...
Tehachapi Mtns.-desert slopes off Willow Springs Rd. May 3, 2008. Species seen or collected. Checkered White (Pontia protodice) Becker's White (Pontia...
Hi Matt... Welcome to San Diego. If anyone hasn't already responded off list, your bug is a nice fresh Gabbs Checkerspot, C.gabbii. They are starting to...
Pete, Matt, Actually, Neumoegen's Checkerspot is a subspecies of Chlosyne acastus, not gabbii. So Chlosyne acastus neumoegeni is the correct combination. I do...
Koji... thanks Of course it is,I don't know why or how I typed that! I'm exhausted, disoriented, and need sleep I guess. I couldn't even spell Gabb's...
Yep, I agree with Ken. Gabbs. Now, you start looking at the ones up near Ken - like say south of Lake Isabella - and they really get difficult. And the...
Hi Matt... No problem. You're right, Mission Trails is a great place. One of many that our beautiful county has to offer us. You are fortunate to be here...
Hi everyone, Following up on Fred's question, I reared two Juniper Hairstreaks and separated them when they turned into pupae. One was put in a container with...
Hi all... Although we haven't seen a Loki in ABDSP since the end of March, those individuals observed then were in fact greener than ones we observed in years...
Actually, I think this is quite significant (not exactly the result I would have predicted). I've collected many individuals of Loki - green, purple, and...
For those interested, I've finished another video from a recent outing - "Searching for Becker's White Butterflies near Palmdale CA". The video shows the...
To the group Went to Crawford Creek, vic. Cecilville, CA. , Siskiyou Co. on May 7th. Western access off of Hwy. 96 is not advisable for everyone. In places...
Fresh 'Desert' Black Swallowtails plus Becker's Whites were plentiful Thursday and Friday outside Cima 20 miles or so near Middle Hills Campground --before ...
Yesterday, which was Friday, May 9, I left work in Rancho Bernardo at noon to head into the local mountains with David Marriott, the director of the Monarch...
Hi all, I made a quick but long trip yesterday in San Diego Co. <Jacumba area> I was little surprised that Henne's Checkerspots are still flying in the...
Everyone, Since the publication of Jonathan Pelham’s “Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada,” several people have asked about the...
Sorry for the late report (I had to get some help on duskywing ID first). I saw the following on the road up to Pinal Peak on Tuesday, May 6th: Pipevine...
You can't drive from San Miguel, CA to Parkfield. The road is closed. Bummer. And you don't find out until you've driven many miles. Oh well, when the sky is...
For anyone interested in specimen photography I have placed a little descriptive blurb in the files section of this discussion group website See file:...
We spent almost two weeks in Anza-Borrego looking for butterflies, other insects and whatever other wildlife we could find and photograph. In many recent...
I got two reports today that hermes coppers are now flying. The past 5-6 years we have consistently noted their emergence mid-May. As many of your know this...
Everyone: I've been off line for about a week. The computer hard drive has long been not working and my wife and I chose to save all the "my Documents and...
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