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[Joel Lyons]

Thanks guys, this is THE STUFF!

Bob Thomas wrote:

> Excellent report!
>
> I've spent the last two weekends at the American River bikeway parks and the
> Pipevine Swallowtail flights are amazing!
> I have been driving myself nuts with a conclusive identification of the
> "Blue" butterflies laying eggs of the yellow flowering shrubs along the
> river.  The undersides really resemble the Silvery Blue - Glaucopsyche
> lydamus but above resemble the Common Blue - Icaricia icarioides.  The host
> plant was definitely not a Lupine so I guess that rules out the Common Blue
> but I really hadn't considered the Spring Azure.  I might have to go back
> and actually capture one.  I promise to let it go - relax guys :^)
> No Vanessa of any kind so far and it has been quite warm.  Oh well, the
> Pipevines are spectacular this year.
> --
> Bob Thomas
>
> Cameron Park, California
>
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> "Patrick Foley" <patfoley at csus.edu> wrote in message
> news:3CB8D43D.5D0D5B71 at csus.edu...
> | Dear lepsters,
> |
> | Along the American River in Sacramento, the Pipevine Swallowtails,
> | Battus philenor, are flying in numbers, at least the males. They are
> | mating with the few evident females, and their cute little
> | orange-spotted caterpillars are showing up on the
> | Aristolochia.californica.
> |
> | I saw my first spring Anise Swallowtail, Papilio zelicaon, close up
> | today, and while his tails were pristine, both hw eyespots had been
> | cleanly removed with no other damage. I guess it is springtime for the
> | birds also. What will be this bird's next mistake?
> |
> | Also seen recently here are the western Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio
> | rutulus, the Spring Azure, Celestrina ladon, the Eastern tailed blue,
> | Everes comyntas, and of course the Orange Sulfur, Colias eurytheme and
> | the Cabbage White, Pieris rapae.
> |
> | Oddly, I have seen few bees along the American river this spring so far:
> | a few carpenter bees, Xylocopa , and a few bumble bees, Bombus. Usually
> | by now, more small native bees are in evidence. This may be due to
> | observer bias; my right eye, while retinally sound, is still plagued by
> | unphagocytized red blood cells, so that rapid movements give much the
> | same effect as a little shaken snow scene. When the phagocytes have
> | finished their work, it will be harder for the bees to hide among the
> | floaters.
> |
> | Patrick Foley
> | patfoley at csus.edu
> |
> |
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