Yosemite

[Bob Thomas]

Spent last week in Yosemite National Park and visited Wawona Big Trees for a
day.  Beautiful weather and outstanding natural landscape!
Here's the Lep report:

Western Tiger Swallowtail   8
Pale Swallowtail                   1
Lorquin's Admiral                85+
Monarch                                12
Leto's Fritillary                        8
Pine White                            Dozens and dozens

Here is my Lep identifier question of the week  -  I observed a small brown
butterfly that cannot be matched with certainty in the fields guides I have.
It had a wing span of one and a quarter inches.  Rich brown to reddish brown
FW and HW with a fat hairy brown body.  The underside of the wings were
lighter brown with a large red spot on the hind wing (Thecla spot on a
Hairstreak).
The butterfly was too large to be a female Blue and the underside was wrong
for a Blue.  Any ideas?


--
Bob Thomas

Cameron Park, California





 
 ------------------------------------------------------------ 

   For subscription and related information about LEPS-L visit:

   http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/lepsl