Huachuca Mts (SE Arizona) Leps

[Bruce Walsh]

The following were seen on a hike up Carr Peak (9200 ft), Huachuca Mts,
SE Arizona on 30 May.  (Photos of the Huachuca high country can be found
at http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/habitats/Huachuca.html)


Overcast skies kept numbers down.

BUTTERFLIES:

2  Pacuvius duskywing skipper --- Erynnis pacuvius pacuvius 
1  Deva Skipper --- Atrytonopsis deva 
2  Northern Cloudywing Skipper --- Thorybes pylades 
1  Orange-edged Roadside-Skipper --- Amblyscrites fimbriata 

(all species figured at  
http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/seazlist.html )

MOTHS:

1 Ctenucha venosa     (Arctiidae)

Malacosoma incurvum  (Lasiocampidae)  --- nests common on Aspen

(all species figured at http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/m
othlist.html)