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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New Mexico Butterflies
Steve Cary’s blog about butterflies of New Mexico.
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.
Magnificent to Macabre
Some recent fun stories and a couple of interesting tidbits from the butterfly world of New Mexico and elsewhere.
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A Spring Interlude in Southern AZ and CA
Somehow it came to be June. How did that happen? This month we have an announcement, a nice story about Stanfords’ Blue by Joshua C’deBaca, and a couple travel stories from yours truly.
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It’s Spring and Butterflyers are Getting Busy
A couple of brief but important announcements and then a wonderful surprise out of Portales.
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Butterflies: A Consuming Passion
I am looking forward to good butterflying in 2024. In this month’s blog we have two stories.
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New Mexico, Meet the Northern Azure
With winter receding in our rearview mirrors, it is past time to lay out some fun projects and goals for the 2024 season. If you’re scratching your head about what to do this year, consider Northern Azure and Julia Orangetip.
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New Mexico Butterfly Highlights for 2023
A lot of good butterfly stuff happened in 2023, thanks in large part to your efforts. Last month we celebrated Jeff Glassberg’s discovery of White-tufted Sootywing (Pholisora albicirrus), which is a new member of New Mexico’s butterfly fauna. Other naturalists generated two additional New Mexico state record butterflies in 2023. Observations for each were made public via iNaturalist and each provoked a substantial online conversation about the correct identity and the significance of the observation. Read on for details.
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Springing Gleefully Forward
© Steven J. Cary, April 2023 Happy April all you New Mexico butterflyers. I hope it has been worth the
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