Observation date: May 28, 2026
Date notes: Clear Skies at Vista Lake
Submitted by: blgreco
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: Flying low in the grass by the lake, stopping on clover blossoms.
Status: Resident
Verified by: mikefisher
Verified date: May 31, 2026
Coordinator notes: Byron I believe this is a Lilac-bordered Copper...at least the upper side demonstrates this to me and not a Purplish Copper. Tentatively this is a new county record...it is recorded from La Plata and Montezuma County so it fits the pattern of distribution in SW Colorado. Please submit to iNat if you have not already and see what that the Colorado community there comes back with in ID's and let me know...or send me the iNat submission number and I can check it myself. Thanks. Mike
