About 20 minutes ago (10:30 AM) a very large well-marked female Orange-barred Sulphur flew through our yard in Carr Canyon. It had very obvious thick reddish...
I checked out A Mountain near downtown Tucson for hilltoppers mid-morning. Nothing unusual, but a nice number of butterflies: Pipevine swallowtail 2 ...
Hank: Thanks for the sighting report. There are a lot of factors involved in accepting or rejecting your early season sight record for an Orange-Barred...
Everyone: I was talking with a Wildlife Biologist at the Kernville U. S. Forest Service office today regarding sensitive species of butterflies in the southern...
Everyone: One item I posted months ago was that a U. S. Forest Service employee at Bald Mountain last June asked me to leave because collecting is not...
Hello all, I just returned from leading a 2.5 day bird tour to Northwest Baja for the San Diego Bird Festival. On the way to San Diego from Phoenix Jake...
In a message dated 3/6/2009 8:49:07 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, kurtrad@... writes: However, I was not to be denied. At San Telmo I had a...
JimJoanJoy@...
Mar 6, 2009 4:37 pm
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Greetings- Today I hiked briefly along the Aliso loop trail, ~1pm, Santa Ynez Mts., Los Padres National Forest, Santa Barbara Co., conditions were partly sunny...
Greetings from Anza Borrego. I arrived today for 3- days of butterflying. I wasn't sure what I'd find lepwise, so my hedge was wildflowers [excuse the pun],...
Hi Lepsters, I have but together a printable checklist booklet of the Butterflies of Sonora. The list of butterflies was drawn from Glassberg's Butterflies of...
P.S in doing this checklist, I have found that the Glassberg book is missing several butterfly species that occur in Mexico, mostly bugs that occur in Baja...
Kurt, All, Thanks for posting your checklist. Back in the mid-1990's, Sandy Upson and Richard Bailowitz assembled a checklist of Sonoran Butterflies, printed...
80-W, By the way I had RAB check the tails on a Gorgythion and it came out begga so G. begga pyralina is good for Sonora. jb **************A Good Credit Score...
JimJoanJoy@...
Mar 10, 2009 5:01 pm
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Hello all, I just received a list of the Butterflies of Sonora from Jim Brock. I will replace the existing checklist with Jim's list and taxonomy. This...
I climbed a peak in the Tucson Mountains to look for hilltoppers on my lunch break today. I didn't find much in numbers or variety, but was rewarded by a...
Lepsters, As promised and with J. Brock's permission I have updated the Sonora Checklist with J. Brock's compilation. So, now the Sonora Checklist available...
I visited Madera Canyon this morning hiking part of the Proctor Road trail and then heading off trail to look for hilltoppers. Despite the sparse nectar...
Everyone: In an effort to get things back on a positive track, I received my new copy of American Butterflies and noted an excellent article by Bob Barnes who...
Hi Lepsters, I went back to Peppersauce Canyon on Wednesday, this time with Doug Mullins. Although the weather was predicted to be sunny, we encountered quite...
Hello Butterfliers, I was recently asked not to use the term lepsters when addressing the listserv members. While I don't find the term offensive myself, I...
Kurt: Here we go again! You can't be serious! This is a list pertaining to lepidoptery, not to Hansen's disease, an illness that now can be easily cured. So...
Here a year or so ago I got quite the cyber tongue lashing from someone who was very offended by the terms lepster, lepping, lepped, etc. They were also...
I really have not put much thought on a moniker for us. None of them bother me one way or another. "Butterflier" works best for us as a whole I guess. Whereas,...
To the Group Lepsters is fine, regarding those who don't like the term, many thoughts enter my mind as to what they could be called. Ken Hansen [Non-text...
In 2005, my wife and I spent a couple of nights at The Red Setter Inn in Greer. The couple that operated the establishment lived...an alternative life style....
Hi Lepsters, "I was recently asked not to use the term lepsters..." "Here a year or so ago I got quite the cyber tongue lashing from someone who was very...
Hank wrote: "Or perhaps someone has been sniffing their collecting jar again ;-)" Is that a bad thing? The smell sorta grows on you - and it beats picking...
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