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...
Everyone: I finally received my copy of Papilio NS #18 (my first shipment was lost in the U. S. mail) which discusses "Geographic variation and new taxa of...
Hi All, Continuing warm temps (with drought) tempted me out to Lopez Canyon on 4Feb09 to see what was flying. During a 2-hour excursion, I found an extremely...
Thanks for the report Bill. I'm jealous; I wish I could be there. I noticed that both the "Veined" Mustard White, Pieris marginalis venosa, and the sara...
Bill: Great list for so early in the season. Big surprise so many Large Veined Whites (Pieris marginalis venosa) out already. Not a southern range extension...
Having reared numerous Polygonia Oreas from different N. Cal. populations. I am passing on the following information. On warm Spring days, March - April, they...
Hey Bill, Fresh P. m. venosa are stunning. Glad to hear there are so many on the wing at Lopez. Too bad it's never been found in Santa Barbara Co. Are you...
Ken and all: My experience with adult oreas is that they often perch on willows along streams, making it necessary to wade in knee deep water to access them....
Subject:Large Orange Sulphur - State Record Compilation Inclusion Hi Mr Davenport, I was instructed to submit our record submission to you by Mr Jeff Babson,...
Everyone: Below is the message I sent to Chris. Large Orange Sulphurs are well known from Arizona and much less so from California. While I read posts with...
Hi Tom, That looks like a hammered spring azure male to me--Celastrina ladon echo. Others refer to it as Celastrina echo echo. They are likely multiple...
Ahhh rain, the sweet elixir of life. California is getting a much need drink right now and we are earnestly praying for more. For Spring is coming up fast with...
Pete, This is good news indeed! My yard got more than a half an inch yesterday. I'm near Sabino Canyon at the base of the Santa Catalina Mts. I think it's...
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Todd: The azure in Arizona is considered to be Celastrina "echo" cinerea. I put echo in quotes because we really do not know what species it really is in...
Sure Jim, rub it in. Actually, we've got Euchloe (hyantis) lotta flying thick in my yard right now. Oh wait. Those are snow flakes--My bad. I do currently...
Returned from Colombia yesterday to find .5" in our rain gauge - with more on the way (probably in the form of snow) tonight and tomorrow. Hank Brodkin Carr...
Hi All, Regarding the rain discussion: Here on the Central Coast of CA (San Luis Obispo County), we are at 67% of our average rainfall total for this date....
Our expected big storm in SE AZ fizzled. Though we still had snow in our yard - the rain gauge had a disappointing .2" . Hank Brodkin Carr Canyon, Cochise...
All, My yard had .42 of rain so maybe not that bad everywhere. Jim B **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! ...
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I had to leave around 10:30am and butterflies were just starting to fly. Mexican poppies and a few small composites are beginning to flower in the Park. I...
Butterflies today included a Juvenal's Duskywing, 2 Brown Elfins (on flowering manzanita), 2 Texas Powdered-Skippers, and numerous Sara Orangetips and Pipevine...
Thanks to an interesting email from a fellow subscriber, I re-examined my photographs of the Powdered-Skipper and found that they actually appear to be Arizona...
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