Euphydryas editha, multiple broods?

Neil Jones Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk
Sun Sep 28 16:05:00 EDT 1997


In message <9709221153.AA13858 at biovhfnx.uni-bielefeld.de> andrea.knebel at Biologie.uni-bielefeld.de writes:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I would like to know if Euphydryas editha has multiple broods in the  
> western part of the US.
> I tried to get info from Peterson-s field guide for ,western  
> butterflies, but it did not work out. Can anybody help me? 
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andrea 
> 
> University Bielefeld
> Germany

The simplest answer is that, as far as I know, they do not have 2 broods.
There is howerver evidence from the 1950's of sightings of the most
southern, and probably most endangered, subspecies E. editha quino during 
December. 

I have a bibiliography of scientific papers on this subject on my web site
at http://www.nwjones.demon.co.uk/chspot/index.htm



 

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