Garden Canyon, Ft. Huachuca, Arizona

Hank & Priscilla Brodkin hankb at theriver.com
Wed Mar 31 18:16:52 EST 1999


Due to the dry windy weather very few butterflies were seen today in
Garden Canyon in spite of several blooming Ceonothus shrubs.
Species seen:

Great Purple Hairstreak (Atlides halesus)
Brown Elfin (Callophrys augustinus)
'Siva' Juniper Hairstreak (C.gryneus siva)
Arizona Hairstreak (Erora quaderna)
Common Blue (Spring Azure) Celestrina argiolus)
Zela Metalmark  (Emisis zela)
Mournful Duskywing (Erynnis tristis)
Funereal Duskywing (E. funneralis)
Morrison's Skipper (Stinga morrisoni)

Also several of us were in Alamos, Sonora last week.  Again it was very
dry.  Very few individuals were seen compared even to numbers seen last
December.  We will post a species list as soon as some photos that were
taken of certain species are identified.

Cheers!
-- 
	   Hank Brodkin
	Carr Canyon, Cochise County, AZ
		31.45N, 110.27W
	Send Mailto:hankb at theriver.com


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