Hi everyone, The Utah Butterfly Field Trips group had a fun time Saturday collecting indra swallowtails at Leatham Hollow, Cache County, Utah. We had 11...
Here are the SEAZ Butterfly Count Contacts for 2009: July 18 - Santa Catalina Mountains Count, Karen Nickey - no e-mail - 520-326-2070 July 25 - Portal Count,...
Butterflies, other than Arizona Sisters, were rather sparse in Miller Canyon today. Water is only flowing in two short sections and the canyon is quite dry...
Also wanted to mention our annual Boyce Thompson Arboretum count will be Sat. Sept 12. I will be leading that one as I will be back in the state for monarch...
Peter Derkx, a long time butterfly enthusiast visiting from the Netherlands, and I decided to scout the Colonel Devin Trail, Gila Co. on June 2nd, for the...
Everyone: The Lake Isabella-Havilah-Piute Mts. butterfly count has been changed from Saturday to Monday because of low temperatures, clouds and rainfall...
Just checked my Departmental mailbox this fine Saturday morning and found that my copy of Powell and Opler's Moths of Western North America has arrived! Here ...
Bruce Walsh
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Jun 6, 2009 5:11 pm
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Yesterday June 7th, while hiking with family, I saw a small number of butterflies along the trail. I decided to post about it, since Ilavia Hairstreak is not...
State (AZ) Butterfly Sighting Record Submission June 7, 2009 Location: 5494 East Edwin Road, Tucson, Arizona 85739-1924 Conditions: 84°, sunny Time: 8:45 AM ...
Hi Steve, Great feedback!! I appreciate that. I had no idea brenda and ampelos were sympatric in Cache County. My impression was that the two taxa are...
Chris: Thanks for the below record. Silver Banded Hairstreaks are always a good find, even though it is taken in SE Arizona fairly regularly. I will likely...
All: On Sunday, I was able to visit Big Pine Mountain, the highest point in Santa Barbara County, in the San Rafael Mountains. I was resuming some butterfly...
I'm actually a bit embarrassed that this made the national news. Its simply because it was pink! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31206672/...
Bruce Walsh
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Jun 11, 2009 2:20 pm
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FYI, moth book Schmidt, BC /Lafontaine, JD. 2009. Contributions to the Systematics of New World Macro-Moths. ZooKeys 9, ISBN: 978-954-642-485-3. 165x240,...
Bruce Walsh
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Jun 11, 2009 3:09 pm
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I checked out Montosa Canyon on the west side of the Santa Rita Mountains this morning with Rich Hoyer, Matt Brooks, and Scott Pipkin. Conditions were less...
Lepsters, Today the butterfly gods smiled upon me. After striking out on most of my attempts recently, today I hit a personal jackpot. I went searching for 3...
Hi All, Recently I received a request from Mike Stangeland, of Butterflies Of America, for images of Satyrium saepium caliginosum, a form (?) apparently only...
Everyone: Note to Chris Kline: I received your message but my computer returned my messages back to me as undeliverable. Some of the issues discussed...
Everyone: I did get up to the Sierra Nevada just SW of Yosemite National Park and camp below Fresno Dome Camp along Big Creek where it had rained saturday...
Bill, Nice shots! Most of the habitat where I collected the type series is now houses. I have also seen this ssp. at the type locality for P. speciosa purisima...
JimJoanJoy@...
Jun 17, 2009 3:34 am
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Hi Bill, If you're interested in rearing Satyrium saepium caliginosum next year, I might recommend visiting those same Ceanothus cuneatus var. fasicularis...
Bill: S. saepium caliginosum is a subspecies described in 1998 in the Systematics book and your virgulti at Los Osos is likely arenaria, an entity also...
Lepsters, Kurt Radamaker and I went down to Baja California last weekend to see if we could find Hermes Copper (Lyceana hermes). We failed in our search, but...
I spent two days at altitude in the San Bernardino Mountains earlier this week, and though the temperature was cooler than expected (mostly 60's F), we enjoyed...
Everyone: Most of the records below are from Bates Canyon, but some were from the road connecting Bates Canyon with Cottonwood canyon and a few were taken...
Greetings all, June in Tucson, Arizona is normally the hottest month of the year. Typically daytime highs are triple digits and skies are cloudless with warm ...
JimJoanJoy@...
Jun 23, 2009 9:01 pm
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Folks don't know what the June Blues are until they come to New England (or New Brunswick)...We haven't had a day without rain and chilly temps since June...