Leps-talk "Good for the Soul"

Mon Oct 18 23:00:05 EDT 2004

OK Metal Marco walkerii (please forward to leps-talk for me, I take  full 
responsibility for content), here's the photo I promised.  Too bad it  was taken 
with an economy camera and scanned on an economy scanner...

_http://www.diogenite.com/mark2.JPG_ (http://www.diogenite.com/mark2.JPG) 

But that adds to the challenge:  Properly name those butterflies (not  
talking about the prints on my T-shirt) perched on me and weep!  The pose  is 
unmistakable.  Or just come on down, I'll find a better place for you to  get lost.  
As customary, a dorsal and ventral in the same shot, Bahhh!! who  needs 
binoculars to see the end of their nose!  Who would want to do that  anyways?  
Disgusting!   And you only need the camera to show  off:)

Next to come: My new book, "Butterflies Through Eyeballs - AND ON  THEM".  
Maybe my colleague I hold in high esteem, Bob Pyle, will consider  collaborating 
with me on this one...  BTW, these pics aren't for the  socialite city 
crowd's pleasantries.  We're just getting over the wicked  tick larva from the 11th. 
 Is that how you say pinolillos "wicked tick  larvae" in English, Alejandro, 
lo sabes tú, güey?

Getting High on Butterflies :)
South of the Río Grande &  Bravo,
Doug
_http://www.diogenite.com/bugs.JPG_ (http://www.diogenite.com/bugs.JPG) 
_http://www.diogenite.com/jardin.JPG_ (http://www.diogenite.com/jardin.JPG) 
_http://www.diogenite.com/D-plex.JPG_ (http://www.diogenite.com/D-plex.JPG) 

En un mensaje con fecha 10/18/2004 4:02:27 PM Mexico Daylight Time,  
MexicoDoug escribe:

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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