Everyone: Jim Brock requested I send off a complete list of all the butterflies encountered during the week of the NABA meeting. I am familiar with the board...
One man's curse is another man's blessing I suppose! YEars ago when I worked summers for the USGS I had everyone jealous of me one summer in Arizona's WHite...
Everyone: This is the continued list of butterflies found in the southern Sierra Nevada. The Piute Mountains are on fire and have been since saturday. If the...
Everyone: Here's the report for Lycaenidae: Tailed Copper (Lycaena arota arota). It seems someone saw this, but none were encountered on my trips during the...
I'm just back from a week camping near Red River, New Mexico with a Boy Scout troop. After the drought and scarcity of butterflies in central Texas it was...
Everyone: Lots of catching up with things. Now I can do part 4. Brush-footed butterflies: Henne's Coronis Fritillary (Speyeria coronis hennei): One reported...
Everyone: Sorry, my computer is malfunctioning and sent off my post in progress. I will resume with Nymphalidae. Monache Arachne Checkerspot (Poladryas arachne...
Everyone: Many of us have been concerned that the Tehachapi Fritillary (Speyeria egleis tehachapina) may now be extinct. None have been seen on Mt. Tehachapi,...
Hi all, Had another meeting at L.A. today, so stopped by at Frazier Park area today. Sunny and very calm wind. My purpose this time was to photo Bright Blue...
Bill: I'll at least tackle the issue of your "Acmon Blue" from New Mexico. I don't have images of your other problem bugs. Paul A. Opler published a paper in...
Sounds like time for a little barcoding! cheers bruce...
Bruce Walsh
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These added comments for the Kernville meeting. Tailed Copper: Seen by Susan Steele's group at Shirley Meadows in the Greenhorns and on a ridge south of...
Ken, Thank you for the feedback and pointers to the articles. I found the Taxonomic Report - now I have to digest it! Bill Dempwolf ... Mexico. I don't have...
Paul Kinslow and I used "Finding BF's in AZ" by Bailowitz and Brodkin, to find this beautiful remote area at about 8000 ft elevation. Our first target was the...
Everyone: It was back up Sherman Pass today with a net to collect species I am studying. I also visited some choice past places where I did not take NABA folks...
Hi all, I am currently working with a professor in Tokyo to review Callophrys group (worldwide) by mDNA. We are in need of Callophrys specimens that are less...
Hi all, My wife wanted to sleep-in and my boys told me that they want to stay home today. So I respected them and went out to Jacumba-Buckman Springs area in...
At the request of the meeting coordinator, Laurence Crabtree, I am posting this to the listserv. If you have not registered by this time, please let Laurence...
David: The fritillary pictured is a Mormon Fritillary. The Zerene was the one high on the steep hill at about 7400'. Looking for butterflies is not that...
Everyone: I am trying to cram more collecting in prior to my likely moving into a new home next week. While some criticize me for having a Toyota Highlander...
Everyone: One blue I overlooked: Sierra Nevada Arctic Blue (Agriades podarce cilla): Common near shooting stars flowers in wet meadows at Fresno Dome...
Everyone: Never type up a list when you are tired and have deadlines. Two more additions to Fresno Dome, Madera County, California, for July 8th, 2008. Clodius...
All, At long last, the following paper has been published. As promised, here is the citation: Prudic, K. L., A. D. Warren & J. Llorente-Bousquets. Molecular...
On Thursday, July 10th, I visited the Sierra Anchas in East-Central Arizona stopping at several spots along Workman Creek and hiking Trail 151 up to Aztec Peak...
Does anyone have any contacts for Alberta Canada butterflies? I will be in the Calgary area July 24 - Aug 1. I would love to know some areas for finding some...
To the group While at the Alturas Lep. Soc. meeting, I took some Plebejus atrapraetextus benwarner adults in the vicinity of Cedar Pass. I suspected that the...
I was a bit early to see a lot this morning, but still saw a nice variety: 5 Pipevine swallowtail 1 Sleepy orange 10 Leda ministreak 1 Ceraunus blue 3...
Good afternoon, In preparation for next Saturday's butterfly walk (start time 9:30AM), led by yours truly, took a two hour walk today. Overall, a nice...
Ok here is the group that I will admit, I am very unfamiliar with. I don't see a whole lot of checkerspots in Illinois. #1-3 Checkerspots from Kenosha Pass ...