Observation date: April 30, 2020
Submitted by: Robert Gorman
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: Hot day Low nineties, Wright's and desert metalmark, Desert swallowtail, Orange tips, Laneria Checkerspot, Painted lady, Checkered white several metal mark species, Pale swallowtail, Orange sulphur, sleepy orange cloudless, marine blue, Acmon lupine? Pygmy, other blues that use thorn trees! northern skipper common skipper grass skippers, common sootywing. Queen sister others! Also finally after many years of searching after seeing these on Lynn and Gene Monroe's Book the fuzzy little larva of Wright's Metalmark also seen here! We Found Nine or Ten of these larvae on the Host Sweet Bush. They look like the old dried flowers and are white like the stocks! Page 61 Butterflies & Their Favorite Flowering Plants. Lynn & Gene Monroe! Also on Page 74, 75 of Caterpillars in the Field and Garden By Thomas Allen and Jim P Brock! Also on Page 50, 51 The Butterflies of Southern California By Thomas C. Emmel & John F. Emmel Everyone seems to have had an easier time finding these larvae than me! But What a fun Reward Lots of late rain has made it a very late season in the Colorado low desert that and no Feb. rains and Very little rain in Jan!
Status: Resident
Verified by: Ken Davenport
Verified date: May 03, 2020
Coordinator notes: None.
