No public meeting point/time due to coronavirus closure of Sabino Canyon visitor center & parking lot. Solos or small groups only, and you must contact Mary prior to the count via email to participate. Let Mary know if you have a preference for where you want to go. She will send you the checklist & confirm your location. No compilation dinner, just send Mary your list by email, and please include hours by foot/car, time spent. BE SURE TO USE grizzledelfin@gmail.com EMAIL ADDRESS, her old email address doesn't work.
Mary will cover the $3.00/person cost to NABA. However ----- it's still possible that Catalina Hwy could close if Coronado NF closes. If so, we'll have to just do private property or whatever we can access. As the magic 8 ball says ... "all will be revealed ...." More later, thanks!
This count includes territory easily reached by paved road up the Catalina Highway to Mt. Lemmon, as well as lower Sonoran Desert areas. Note that a Coronado NF pass, America the Beautiful, or other Federal Recreational Lands pass is required for parking on the Catalina Highway within the National Forest.
03 April 2020; 0700-1730 hrs; sun AM 76-100%, PM 76-100%;
55-83°F; wind 0-10 mi/hr.
16 observers in 11 parties. Total party-hours 62; total party-miles on foot 53
Species Counted:
- Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor 89
- Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes 3
- Giant Swallowtail Papilio cresphontes 4
- Two-tailed Swallowtail Papilio multicaudata 43
- Spring White Pontia sisymbrii 2
- Checkered White Pontia protodice 275
- ‘Desert’ Pearly Marble Euchloe hyantis lotta 47
- ‘Pima’ Desert Orangetip Anthocharis cethura pima 14
- Sara Orangetip Anthocharis sara 61
- Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme 3
- Southern Dogface Colias cesonia 29
- Mexican Yellow Eurema mexicana 60
- Mimosa Yellow Eurema nise 1
- Sleepy Orange Eurema nicippe 52
- Dainty Sulphur Nathalis iole 164
- Great Purple Hairstreak Atlides halesus 3
- Brown Elfin Callophrys augustinus 29
- Thicket Hairstreak Callophrys spinetorum 1
- Siva' Juniper Hairstreak Callophrys gryneus siva 11
- Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus 24
- Arizona Hairstreak Erora quaderna 5
- Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exile 8
- Marine Blue Leptotes marina 28
- Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus 4
- Reakirt’s Blue Hemiargus isola 9
- ‘Echo’ Spring Azure Celastrina ladon 283
- Acmon Blue Plebejus acmon texana 6
- Zela Metalmark Emesis zela 1
- American Snout Libytheana carinenta 5
- Gulf Fritillary Agraulis vanillae 2
- Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia 3
- Black Checkerspot Chlosyne cyneas 1
- Fulvia Checkerspot Chlosyne fulvia 21
- Sagebrush Checkerspot Chlosyne acastus 48
- Tiny Checkerspot Dymasia dymas 232
- Elada Checkerspot Texola elada 22
- Texan Crescent Phyciodes texana 57
- Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta 24
- Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus 2
- Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa 13
- American Lady Vanessa virginiensis 2
- Painted Lady Vanessa cardui 185
- Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta 24
- Common Buckeye Junonia coenia 314
- ‘Dark’ Tropical Buckeye J.genoveva nigrosuffusa 20
- Red-spotted Purple Limenitis arthemis astyanax 6
- Empress Leilia Asterocampa leilia 90
- Monarch Danaus plexippus 1
- Queen Danaus gilippus 19
- Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus 1
- Golden-headed Scallopwing Staphylus ceos 16
- Arizona Powdered-Skipper Systasea zampa 25
- White-patched Skipper Chiomara asychis 1
- Sleepy Duskywing Erynnis brizo 12
- Mournful Duskywing Erynnis tristis 7
- Pacuvius Duskywing Erynnis pacuvius 8
- Funereal Duskywing Erynnis funeralis 18
- White Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus albescens 51
- Desert Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus philetas 5
- Erichson's White-Skipper Heliopyrgus domicella 3
- Common Streaky-Skipper Celotes nessus 11
- Common Sootywing Pholisora catullus 1Sar
- Orange Skipperling Copaeodes aurantiacus 62
- Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus 19
- Pahaska Skipper Hesperia pahaska 1
- White-barred Skipper Atrytonopsis pittacus 13
- Violet-clouded Skipper Lerodea arabus 3
Unidentified: Erynnis sp. 4
Notes:
Number in Bold = New High count
Species in Bold = New for Count