Observation date: October 26, 2011
Submitted by: Greg Dean
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: None.
Status: Temporary Colonist
Verified by: Ken Davenport
Verified date: November 05, 2011
Coordinator notes: First, this is incorrectly identified as one of the most common butterflies in the state. However, it is one of the very rarest butterflies in the state...and one of the poorest documented. This is a Large Orange Sulphur (Phoebis agarithe), a tropical butterfly now breeding in that area, but still very rarely seen in California. Congratulations! Your record may be worth publishing in the annual Season Summary of the Lepidopterists' Society.
