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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New Mexico Butterflies
Steve Cary’s blog about butterflies of New Mexico.
Rapid Butterfly Declines Across the United States
© Steven J. Cary, March 8, 2025 Before we dive into that timely, if heavy, topic, I have some lighter
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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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Butterfly Ecstasy in August
Hira Walker’s fabulous videos, Anisha Sapkota’s highlights from chasing butterflies in eastern NM, Marc Bailey chases Colorado Hairstreaks, and Jim Von Loh makes art in the mud.
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What’s In a Name?
In this month’s post we feature Mike Toliver’s timely article on common/English names. I sprinkle in some of my interesting July photos. First, here are some tidbits and announcements which I hope will grab your attention.