Leps-talk "Good for the Soul"

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Hola Amiguillo Marco ! (can you forward to Leps-talk for me,  please...)
 
That would be my fingernail you're looking at, I have no flies painted on  my 
fingernails nor body perforations of any sort!  The little green  fly was 
walking around my thumbnail and was rather photogenic I think:)   One of the 
benefits of being a sweaty campesino guy - the chicas think your  great when you 
attract butterflies like magic (and cute green micro-flies, but  not their 
bigger domestic cousins)...
 
As for the big blue Beatle, good eye, not that you wouldn't miss.   I'll have 
to stray in to US one of these days to give the young generation a  lifer.  
You know, I wouldn't want to kill more bugs than necessary  driving around such 
nice habitat, nor get the ire of any list members for  that...
 
I'll take this as a yes, to me scanning the other picture, which of all  
people you probably will relate to maybe most of all...later  tonight...
 
Now, on the big mud puddle feast, I think you are just imagining a couple  of 
species - no fair, but they were all there that you mention, including not  
two, but three species of _Chlosyne_.  There were also not one but two  
Anartia's around, but you must be able to see into the out of focus zones for  
either,  Ahhh, and my favorite butterfly, _Siproeta stelenes_.  I  played a new game 
called "catch", unfortunately the film ran out by then.   We passed two 
Malachites for over a half hour back and forth.  The  butterflies came and went of 
their own free will, creatively, though  positioned by us.  Soon they came to 
prefer me, and get this - one even  landed on my tongue.  Nothing kinky here, 
I promise, but I hadn't the heart  to deny stelenes a feast on top of my 
tongue, and the proboscis tickles, but the  brush feet were a bit harsh.  Now who 
can beat that for loving Leps?   It must have really been a sight to see...  I 
won't mention the "Blue-eyed  Sailor". nor a certain Metalmark of the four 
species observed, as the Metalmark  is at the center of the missing photo to be 
posted...
 
Now why didn't you mention the _Libytheana carinenta mexicana's_ all over  
there, look at their "noses" in flight...
 
And one comment on the _lisa_, as you quickly observed caught in flight. do  
you notice how the abdomen is pointed upwards and the wings far down?   Think 
about it ... what a lucky instant to capture.  _lisa_ is  demonstrating how 
she moves her body and flies ... just like a little child  conserving angular 
momentum on a swing by extending and retracting legs... Boy  those are big wings 
for such a little body when you think about it...
 
I only saw one Longtail Skipper all day, where do you see him in the  pic???? 
 You cabrito you!  Anyway you win the great puddle  challenge!!
 
Saludos, Doug
 
En un mensaje con fecha 10/18/2004 3:26:20 PM Mexico Daylight Time,  
walkerm at gat.com escribe:

Mi amigo challenged:

 
And if that still doesn't bring some peace (who am I to speak:) ), how  about 
this with Lepsters a little further South a week earlier (October  11) 
interacting with bugs.  The first person to point out and  identify all four bugs 
visible in this photo wins today's mention... 

[Mark Walker] Well, besides  the Biblis, I'm struggling to identify that 
Diptera species, but I'm  guessing that it's really just painted on the gente's 
fingernail (pretty  stylish, I might add, though I might have added some color).
 
And what is that large blue beetle in  the background?  Seems like I remember 
seeing them once in my  youth, but they have not been reported for many years 
north of the  border.  Perhaps with the way the season is progressing, we may 
start  having similar sightings from down near the Rio Grande - a great place 
for  strays from Mexico.
 
_http://www.diogenite.com/bugs.JPG_ (http://www.diogenite.com/bugs.JPG) 
 
And for good measure, how about this one, Also on October 11, drink  time in 
nature's wild "butterfly garden"?  I can see five  species...anyone see more?

_http://www.diogenite.com/jardin.JPG_ (http://www.diogenite.com/jardin.JPG) 
 
 
[Mark Walker]  Wow - there's a  lot more than five.  I can see Eurema (lisa? 
- caught in flight), at  least two different Phoebis, Zerene, Anartia, at 
least two different  Chlosyne, surely some Nymphalids, Riodinidae, and what looks 
like several  spread wing (Eantis?) skippers (ooh - and a longtail).   Cool.
 
Wish I were there...
 
Marcos
 





 
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