Yosemite

[Chuck Vaughn]

Bob,

Are you sure the Lorquin's Admirals were not California Sisters?
I've been to Yosemite lots of times and have never seen Lorquin's
Admirals there but California Sisters are everywhere.

Chuck <aa6g at aa6g.org>

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> From: "Bob Thomas" <bthomas at lc3s.com>
> Organization: WebUseNet Corp.  http://corp.webusenet.com - ReInventing the
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> Reply-To: bthomas at lc3s.com
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:49:46 -0700
> To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu
> Subject: Yosemite
> 
> 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


 
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