Thirteen Is My Limit
© Steve Cary, June 2025 What have your butterfly outings been like so far this year? RSVP to PEEC’s blog […]
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April, Come She Will
© Steve Cary, May 7, 2025 It’s time to round up some recent New Mexico butterfly reports. Yes, butterflying has
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Peruvian Butterflies: My October 2024 Snapshot
© Steve Cary, April 2025 Making this a “snapshot” is my way of dealing with the overwhelming diversity of butterfly
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Rapid Butterfly Declines Across the United States
A major scientific article (Rapid Butterfly Declines Across the United States During the 21st Century) was recently published in Science magazine.
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Hard Times, Conservation and Etymology
© Steven J. Cary, January 31, 2025 Butterflies are appreciated at many levels of understanding and consciousness. The timely arrival
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No Blues for Ellis’ Blue
© Steven J. Cary, December 23, 2024 In my last post of 2024, I’m putting back out to you my
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What’s In a Scientific Name?
In this post we feature Mike Toliver’s fascinating write-up about scientific names and nomenclature among butterflies. And I’m delighted to announce that the Butterflies of New Mexico can now be searched for individual butterfly names: common (English) names as well as scientific (Latin) names.
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Beauties on Beasts
Do you recall back in July when Tom Duval, the original instigator, sent us down this path of necrophagy in butterflies?
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More on Butterfly Names
What Else is in a Name? by Marta Reese. A four-hour drive followed by miles of bushwhacking up steep slopes through head-high vegetation and over dead tree trunks should be rewarded, preferably with a new-to-me butterfly species.
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