Our Annual Membership Meeting will be held on Saturday, January 10th, from 1 till 3pm in the Webster Auditorium at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden. We will...
Everyone: With reports of Large Orange Sulphurs (Phoebis agarithe) being found at two different places in Riverside County, California in the past 2-4 weeks by...
Everyone: Two very good examples of how to get credit for your discoveries. 2005: Mylon pelopidas found at Sycamore Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona by Mike...
Ken makes a number of good points here. To his remarks on timely publication I would like to add the desirability of cooperation. If you know someone has found...
The new Moths of Western North America by Jerry Powell and Paul Opler will be published by U.C. Press this May. A 20% discount is available if you use the...
Everyone: I sent the below announcement to TILS Leps Talk but others may want the below information as well. Some additional information has been added. I...
2 Cloudless Sulphers yesterday-one in Coronado, one in my backyard with a Gulf Fritillary in National City, CA. Yemps in the 80's Doug Aguillard San Diego, CA ...
Hi all and Happy New Year... While down in the Pt. Loma area of San Diego Thursday looking at a rare tropical bird, I headed over to Famosa Slough to walk...
**************Inauguration '09: Get complete coverage from the nation's capital.(http://www.aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000027) [Non-text portions of this...
Fellow Lepsters: Now it begins....the 2009 Lep Season has begun in Southern California. Today, Friday, in San Antonio Canyon, near Mt Baldy Village in the...
Hi All, While hiking in the remote Bartolo Canyon north of Ruby Road in Santa Cruz County, AZ, yesterday, January 15, I saw the following bugs: Lyside Sulphur...
Here are my observations from Santa Barbara Co., Sedgwick Reserve, today Friday 16 Jan. 1200ft, ~11am 2 Anthocharis sara males 2 Celastrina echo males ...
An afternoon visit to the arboretum on this relatively warm day (71 degrees) produced a nice little list to start 2009 off with: Sara's Orangetip 2 Sleepy...
FYI: Next on NOVA: "The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies" _http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/butterflies/_ Tuesday, January 27 at 8 p.m. (Check your local...
Greetings from Orange County, California. Following our brief cool and damp period, the sun was out in force, so we went for a walk today up to Holy Jim Falls...
Frank: As I recall, you were with me when Jeffrey Glassberg lamented at Kernville after our butterfly count that it was too late for Sara Orange-tips and he...
Ken and Frank: I've got stella orangetips emerging right now from near the Type Locality near Marlette Peak, Washoe County, Nevada. They don't look a whole...
In a message dated 1/27/2009 12:11:39 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, flutterflies93306@... writes: To someone like you from the East Sara Orange-tips are a...
It has been very warm here in San Diego, and the leps are out. In the last few days, I've been observing: Mourning Cloaks, Red Admirals, Common Buckeyes, Gulf...
Everyone: I wrote up an extensive discussion of my findings in the northern Mojave Desert at the south end of the Sierra Nevada above Hwy. 14 some miles west...
Everyone: Becker's White (Pontia beckerii) is a fairly common and widely distributed "White" in the Mojave and Great Basin Deserts and regularly strays to arid...
Everyone: I noticed my original post on Becker's White finally got sent. The date I found those in the Northern Mojave Desert was on January 29th, not the...
Like most Fridays, I spent part of my lunch hour with my buddy Allan walking the Borrego Creek portion of Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Lake Forest, CA. At...
Everyone: I have no January records for Veined Blues (Plebejus neurona) but it appears to be the species that most excited visitors to the Lepidopterists'...
G'Day, We drove up the coast from Orange County to Santa Cruz earlier this week and I noticed lots of butterflies flying. Monarchs outnumbered the elephant ...
Spring Azure Sleepy Orange Pipevine Swallowtail Dainty Sulphur Southern Dogface Large Orange Sulphur We saw, netted, photographed, id'ed and released a Large...
Frank: California Hairstreaks don't normally show up along the Coast and not until May. Did you look at the Cabbage Whites closely? Large Veined Whites...
Hi Frank, I would think your hairstreak was most likely a Gray HS (S. melinus), and your comma a Satyr (Polygonia satyrus), given the low elevations of your...
It's fun to find out of season insects, especially mid-winter. I have a fresh male Papilio multicaudatus found in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Thursday, January...
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