Ramsey Canyon

Date & Time: 
July 28, 2026 -
6:00am to 4:30pm
Meeting Place: 
Landmark Cafe for breakfast and area assignments.
Compiler: 
Doug Danforth
Compiler Email: 
dougofbis@gmail.com

This count circle includes the area from the Huachuca Mountains to the San Pedro River and Ramsey Canyon to the Mexican Border. The Ramsey Canyon count, which has been run for 44 years, is usually in the top 5 for species nationally.

 

Meet at 6 am at the Landmark Cafe for breakfast and area assignments. The Landmark Cafe is on Fry Blvd at Sierra Vista's west end. Compilation dinner will be at the Country House Restaurant on Highway 92 in the banquet room.

 

Contact Doug Danforth if you wish to participate in this count.

 

Trip Butterfly Reports: 

Eleven counters in five parties found and identified:

  1. Pipevine Swallowtail                 Battus philenor  91
  2. Black Swallowtail                        Papilio polyxenes  3
  3. Western Giant Swallowtail      Papilio Rumiko  1
  4. Two-tailed Swallowtail             Papilio multicaudata  26
  5. Checkered White                       Pontia protodice  103
  6. Cabbage White                            Pieris rapae  1
  7. Orange Sulphur                           Colias eurytheme  6
  8. Southern Dogface                      Colias cesonia  2
  9. Cloudless Sulphur                       Phoebis sennae  75
  10. Lyside Sulphur                             Kricogonia lyside  8
  11. Mexican Yellow                           Eurema mexicana  4
  12. Sleepy Orange                             Eurema nicippe  9
  13. Dainty Sulphur                             Nathalis iole 4
  14. Siva' Juniper Hairstreak            Callophrys gryneus siva  2
  15. Gray Hairstreak                           Strymon melinus  1
  16. Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak         Strymon istapa  1
  17. Western Pygmy-Blue                Brephidium exile  58
  18. Marine Blue                                  Leptotes marina  3
  19. Ceraunus Blue                             Hemiargus Ceraunus  32
  20. Reakirt’s Blue                               Hemiargus isola  1
  21. ‘Echo’ Spring Azure                    Celastrina ladon 74
  22. Fatal Metalmark                         Calephelis nemesis  1
  23. Zela Metalmark                           Emesis zela  1
  24. American Snout                          Libytheana carinenta  3
  25. Gulf Fritillary                                 Agraulis vanilla  2
  26. Variegated Fritillary                   Euptoieta claudia  2
  27. Theona Checkerspot                 Chlosyne Theona  2
  28. Bordered Patch                           Chlosyne lacinia  967
  29. AZ Checkerspot                          Texola perse  32
  30. Mourning Cloak                          Nymphalis antiopa  1
  31. Painted Lady                                Vanessa cardui  3
  32. Red-spotted Purple                  Limenitis arthemis astyanax   4
  33. ‘Arizona’ California Sister        Adelpha bredowii  8
  34. Canyonland Satyr                       Cyllopsis  pertepida  2
  35. Red Satyr                                       Megisto rubricata  12
  36. Monarch                                        Danaus Plexippus  1
  37. Queen                                            Danaus gilippus  16
  38. Dull Firetip                                    Pyrrhopyge araxes  3
  39. Arizona Skipper                          Codatractus arizonensis  3
  40. Dorantes Longtail                       Urbanus Dorantes  5
  41. Desert Cloudywing                    Achalarus casica 1
  42. Northern Cloudywing               Cecropterus pylades  739
  43. Drusius Cloudywing                  Thorybes drusius  4
  44. Acacia Skipper                             Cogia hippalus  27
  45. Gold-costa Skipper                    Cogia caicus  13
  46. Golden-headed Scallopwing  Staphylus ceos  35
  47. Arizona Powdered-Skipper    Systasea zampa  1
  48. Mournful Duskywing                Erynnis tristis  2
  49. Funereal Duskywing                 Erynnis funeralis  1
  50. Common/White Checkered-Skipper        Pyrgus communis/ albescens  1
  51. Desert Checkered-Skipper     Pyrgus philetas  1
  52. White-tufted Sootywing         Pholisora albicirrus  31
  53. Saltbush Sootywing                   Hesperopsis Alpheus  3
  54. Edward's Skipperling                Oarisma edwardsii  2
  55. Orange Skipperling                    Copaeodes aurantiacus  4
  56. Fiery Skipper                                Hylephila phyleus  5
  57. Taxiles Skipper                            Poanes taxiles  1
  58. Large Roadside-Skipper          Amblyscirtes exoteria  3
  59. Cassus Roadside-Skipper        Amblyscirtes cassus  7
  60. Bronze Roadside-Skipper       Amblyscirtes aenus  6
  61. Elissa Roadside-Skipper           Amblyscirtes elissa  1
  62. Texas Roadside-Skipper          Amblyscirtes texanae  2
  63. Toltec Roadside-Skipper         Amblyscirtes Tolteca  1
  64. Nysa Roadside-Skipper            Amblyscirtes nysa  6
  65. Dotted Roadside-Skipper       Amblyscirtes eos  1
  66. Eufala Skipper                             Lerodea eufala

 

Total 65 species     2473 individuals.