SEABA Beginners' Workshop in Tucson

Hank & Priscilla Brodkin hankb at theriver.com
Sun Oct 31 20:29:50 EST 1999


Yesterday we conducted SEABA's third workshop for beginning butterflyers
in Catalina State Park northwest of Tucson.  We studied the butterflies
up the wash for about 300 yards west of the trail crossing from the
public parking lot at the end of the road in the Park.
We had 28 species in this short distance:

Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor)
Checkered Wite (Pontia protodice)
Orange Sulphur (Colias eurytheme)
Southern Dogface (C. cessonia)
Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae)
Mexican Yellow (Eurema mexicana)
Tailed Orange (E. proterpia)
Sleepy orange (E. nicippe)
Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole)
Great Purple Hairstreak (Atlides halesus)
Leda Ministreak - winter form (Ministrymon leda)
Western Pygmy-Blue (Brephidium exile)
Marine Blue (Leptotes marina)
Ceraunus Blue (Hemiargus ceraunus)
Reakirt's Blue (H. isola)
Acmon Blue (Plebejus acmon)
Fatal Metalmark (Calephelis arizonensis)
Palmer's Metalmark (Apodemia palmerii)
American Snout (Libytheana carinenta)
Varigated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia)
Texan Crescent (Pyiciodes texana)
(Vanessa sp.)
Empress Leilia (Asterocampa leilia)
Queen (Danaus gilippus)
Funereal Duskywing (Erynnis funeralis)
Common/White Checkered-Skipper complex (Pyrgus sp.)
Desert Checkered-Skipper (P. philetus)
Orange Skipperling (Copaeodes aurantiacus)
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	             Hank & Priscilla Brodkin
	          Carr Canyon, Cochise County, AZ
                    Lat: 31.450, Long: 110.267
             SouthEast Arizona Butterfly Association
          http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabasa/home.html


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