Spring butterflies in Oregon, USA

[Jeff & Patricia Harding]

At 12:33 PM 4/22/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Plenty of Small Tortoiseshells and Peacocks, some Commas, esoterica like
>Small Whites and Holly Blues - but has anyone seen a Red Admiral?  And by
>the way, where have all the mailing list members gone?
>Michaek Healy
>
We had our first red admirals (Vanessa atalanta) here in our part of western
Oregon last weekend,  Vanessa annabella (west coast lady) has been flying
for some weeks, along with 
one of our anglewings, or commas, Polygonia satyrus.  Celastrina ladon, our
version of your holly blue, has been flying, but is now joined by silvery
blues (Glaucopsyche lygdamus).  We also found our first mylitta crescents
(Phycoides mylitta) and saw a very fresh anise swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon).
Jeff and Patricia Harding	
Jeff does the butterflies and birds
Patricia does the orchids

Lebanon, Oregon, USA