Colorado

Time: ~2:45 p.m. Temperature: 67 degrees. Wind: 7 mph. Sky: Sunny. Habitat: Rendezvous Trail, a combination of semi-riparian and “weedy field” habitats. Notes: I observed three Orange Sulphurs along the Rendezvous Trail. There were large colonies of still-green legumes (I believe milkvetches) growing all along the trail, probably explaining the late-flying sulphurs in the area.

Time: ~4:00 p.m. Weather: Very hot, fairly calm, and partly cloudy. Habitat: In a residential area; small, dry ditch consisting of mostly grasses and "weedy" plants (dandelions, hoary cress, lamb's ears, thistles, mallow, morning glories, etc.). Notes: A large Black Swallowtail resided behind my house (mostly in the ditch area) for a couple days (July 8-9). During that time, I sighted it on four different occasions. On the second occasion (July 8), I ran alongside it for long enough to confirm identification as Papilio polyxenes.

Time: 1:11 p.m. Weather: Warm, fairly calm, and mostly cloudy (it rained at one point). Habitat: Very dry upland prairie. Notes: This Variegated Fritillary was nectaring on a flowering rabbitbrush right at the start of the Well Gulch Trail. Most of the other fritillaries in the area were Speyeria sp., but none of them landed long enough to be photographed.

Time: 2:43 p.m. Weather: Warm, fairly calm, and mostly cloudy (it rained at one point). Habitat: Sparse coniferous forest. Notes: I came across this small red moth(first three photos) nectaring at an extremely isolated flowering rabbitbrush (fourth photo) high up on the Well Gulch Trail, within coniferous forest habitat. Using iNaturalist and internet searches, I could not find any species of moth that even remotely resembles this one.