FW: [leps-talk] RE: [MassLep] "GOLDEN BANDED SKIPPER"?

Grkovich, Alex agrkovich at tmpeng.com
Fri Jul 5 09:03:28 EDT 2002



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> From:	Grkovich, Alex [SMTP:agrkovich at tmpeng.com]
> Sent:	Friday, July 05, 2002 7:47 AM
> To:	MassLep at topica.com
> Cc:	'TILS-leps-talk at yahoogroups.com'
> Subject:	[leps-talk] RE: [MassLep] "GOLDEN BANDED SKIPPER"?
> 
> 
> Hi, again MassLeppers!
> 
> So you "Lepidopterists" (oh, God, I'm sorry, you folks are called
> "butterfliers") are now seeing "Golden Banded Skippers" in MASSACHUSETTS
> (in
> Greater Boston, no less)????!!!!
> 
> Let me quote Klots for you, from his 1951 Field Guide (you people really
> NEED this book):
> 
> Page 211: "...It's flight is rather sluggish, slow and near the
> ground....."; Liz (is her last name really "Loveland"?) in her "sighting"
> reports a "...strong fast flight as the guides suggest...". Which guides
> actually say this? And Klots again: "Range: ...n. to NY and Ohio, rare
> northward..." 
> 
> This is an essentially Lower Austral Zone species (and it is uncommon even
> there), which essentially will NOT be found (except accidentally as a
> stray)
> anywhere north of Virginia. It certainly (especially with its weak, close
> to
> the ground flight!) would never find its way to eastern Massachusetts,
> unless it got drunk and lost along the way. What was it that I said
> before,
> about you folks needing guidance(?).
> 
> Maybe you folks also need better binoculars.
> 
> Your old friend Alex
> 
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