I’m finally getting caught up with organizing my photos and data from an epic 11-day butterfly safari in eastern Oregon in June!. My first stop on the trip was in the rolling hills near Ironside Mount

At last i got around to making graphics from some Euphydryas pics taken a few years ago. There are 9 of them now at the front of my flickr photostream (and at the end of the Euphydryas album). All of

I'm still in Lane County and went to visit Cougar Bend which is about 15 miles south of Cottage Grove Lake. There were lots of GREAT SPANGLED FRITILLARY males patrolling the roadway, at least 3 GRAY H

I'm spending a week down in Lane Co. visiting my mother. Today I took the morning to drive up to Bohemia Mountain to check out the butterfly action and there was action aplenty. https://www.inaturalis

I found this sulphur in Canby (western Clackamas County) Oregon this morning. I’m leaning towards Western (c. occidentalis) but it seems it might be a bit out of range this far west in the county. Any

On this topic of Plebejus, here is a link to a past specimen comparison graphic https://flic.kr/p/2c41FZz Nature shots are nice and fun to get but for comparisons, specimen shots under controlled cond

A few days ago I visited Baril Creek, SW of Calgary, Alberta to play with the butterflies. While processing the photos I took, I was surprised to see that I had photographed Plebejus atrapraetextus ra

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Norbert Kondla via groups.io <nkondla@...> Date: Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 6:43 AM Subject: [DesertLeps] Euphydryas pairs To: TILS <TILS@groups.io>, desertleps

I went to Saddle Mt today to inventory the reintroduced population of Oregon Silverspots on Saddle Mt, Clatsop Co., OR. The park continues to be closed for repairs to the campground and trail, but I h

Just back from a trip to Steens Mountain and the Alvord Desert (July 20-23). We found Shasta Blue (Icaricia shasta) at about 8700ft up on Steens Mountain, and many artonis Mormon Friillaries. The wild

In 2003 I bought my first home computer and first digital camera. I used them to produce some crude pics illustrating some apparent geographic variation in Yukon Colias christina Here are male and fem

I picked up a new species for the yard list when checking the blacklights this morning. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/126649120 A Blinded Sphinx (_Paonias excaecata_), considered "blinded",

While most of my butterfly sightings are not far enough north for this list, this week the family was traveling back from Montana and we camped at Lost Valley Reservoir in Adams County, ID. We managed

Monday (3/11) I checked out Satus Pass to see how it was holding up. Only one seep had any water and the lower portion was fairly dry with low butterfly activity, but I had 30 species for the day. Den

Another old pocket camera pic uploaded to flickr; showing some dorsal color variation in British Columbia https://flic.kr/p/2nxJoVK -- Norbert Kondla Calgary, Alberta, Canada (elevation 1060 metres as

I put some fresh annotation on an old pocket camera pic from 2004. Here is topotype Euphydryas bernadetta wenatchee from Washington state. Alternative taxonomic hypotheses: E. bernadetta veazieae, E.

Today while looking through some specimen boxes, I noticed some nice specimens of Euphydryas editha taylori. So I held a camera over them and made a digital plate--- https://flic.kr/p/2nvWT4g -- Norbe

Mount Ashland to Grouse Gap on the Siskiyou Crest, southern Jackson County, Oregon Monday 27 June 2022 11:00am to 3:00pm 73°F, full sun, breezy. Duskywings, probably Persius and/or Pacuvius — ABUNDANT

I saw my first Tiger Swallowtail today at my home in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. It is about 3 weeks later than other years!

I was using inaturalist to explore locations where Silvery Blues and Boisduval’s Blues had been reported in prairies of south Puget Sound. I looked at the photo linked below and saw that it had initia