Greetings fellow lepheads, Butterflies are going good in the yard at the moment so to close out September I did a backyard butterfly count yesterday. Had 27...
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Chris: Any records of "Loki Hairstreaks" in Arizona would have to be substantiated with captures of adults or good photos. Callophrys loki is known only from...
We did an abbreviated count, due to extended work time on the plant list and I was feeling a bit off. We counted from 3:45-4:07 The Queens, Snouts and...
Count date: October 1, 2008 Time: 3:45 pm - 4:07 pm Location: 5494 East Edwin Road, Tucson/Catalina, AZ 85739 Conditions: Dry, 83.6 degrees at start We did an...
Happy October. For those of you who are still interested [and can remember back that far], here is my collection of butterfly photos from the NABA meeting,...
I photographed some blues in the Donner Pass area NW of Lake Tahoe on September 22. I think they are perhaps acmon blues, but I'm not at all sure and blues...
Philip, Nice photos. I enjoyed having a look at the Mormo's from New Mexico. Is the blue pictured in your last photo a different specimen from those in the...
Phillip: Based on the September 22 date, acmon is my best guess. Lupine Blue complex should have been done at Donner much earlier in the season. Females of...
Stop the presses! Got an email from Bob yesterday. He mistakenly wrote Loki on my list. Meant to write Xami. I did not realize the list our gift shop...
Chris, Thanks for the correction on Loki from central Arizona. An obvious error. Remember, however, that a few years ago, Mark Walker found the metalmark,...
Hi all again. Here are the butterflies observed in San Diego Co., Oct 3. Very windy, partly cloudy sky, cool temperature (only about 75-80F in desert). Not a...
On sept 30 while birding I had a couple American Snouts (Libytheana carinenta) at Galileo Hill, Kern County. I just joined this list and just started looking...
David; Snouts are rare strays to Kern County. Where is Galileo Hill? Ken Davenport ... From: awanderingbirder To: SoWestLep@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday,...
Howdy all, Wanted to share a lepidoptical moment (not the same thing as a highlight, mind you!!!) I had yesterday. Over the past month or two I have been...
Hey Lepsters, In the latest development concerning Mexican influx rarities in the Santa Ritas this fall, there was a Blackened Bluewing along Proctor Road in...
I spotted and photographed a hammock skipper in Tohono Chul Park in NW Tucson this morning. I can post a photo later if anyone is interested. Also present...
S SEABA Members and Friends Below is an e-mail from our Phoenix area Chapter that might apply to our Chapter and others also. The SEABA meeting in Tucson at...
Lepsters in SE Arizona should keep their eyes open for Northern White-Skipper (Heliopetes ericetorum), which seems to be around in some numbers. This bug is...
Here's a photo of the hammock skipper from this morning (see Tohono Chul Park posting). It's pretty worn as is probably to be expected this late in the...
Hi John, While collecting females of Mitoura siva chalcosiva, I saw a Northern White Skipper at Johnson Pass, Tooele County, UT, in June. (I netted for...
Hi everyone, I just got off of a conference call for the Lepidopterists' Society Executive Committee and volunteered to get the word out that articles are...
All: Recently there have been a few records of Queens along the South coast of Santa Barbara county, with a couple of singles at Gaviota Beach and today I saw...
Hi John and all, Excellent! Here we are having huge numbers of Cloudless Sulphurs. Lots of exotic Cassia in the area. I have them ovipositing in my backyard on...
Hi all, We've had lots of Queens this year. I have not seen any lately. They were ovipositing in my yard in Long Beach, a friend's in Los Alamitos and at the...
Everyone: In view of some recent records for Snouts and a Variegated Fritillary in the Mojave Desert of Kern County, I decided to collect in the Cinco-Cantil...
I observed a fresh specimen of E. Nise taking a break in the shade off of Ina Rd. yesterday around 3:30 in the afternoon. I was able to differentiate it from...
Hi Arizona lepsters, Over the nearly 60 years I have collected or otherwise studied butterflies in Arizona, I have found E. nise to be much more common than E....
There were two different male (the recent sighting in Molino Basin was also of a male) Northern White-Skippers in Florida Canyon today. One of them has been...
In the Tucson Mts, where I live, (Picture Rocks area) I had a new visitor to my lantana that I'd never seen before. Among the L. eufala & Arabus, I had a...
In a message dated 10/15/2008 7:41:38 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, healthylepper@... writes: I think I'll plant more flowers in my yard and stay home...
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