I'm banking on Sachem on a crisp fall day in Kevin's back fourty.
I suffer too much (and donate too much blood) looking for those bog
species in June. :-)
-B
At 8/25/2005, you wrote:
Bryan,
No, maybe not...Boloria eunomia and Incisalia
eryphon are still out there...
Kevin, give Bryan an
"asterisk"...
Also, I'd like to see the "Pink Edged
Sulphur" photo from Roy...Unfortunately, I have been finding
"Clouded" Sulphurs in northern New Hampshire, at elevation of
1500 ft. +/-, in mid-August etc., that have the VHW discocellular spot
single-ringed (as in interior), but in these it is very small (unlike
interior)...the postmedian ventral black spots are present on the FW (and
even HW) in many cases, absent on others...These are a bit strange
looking for philodice, but for sure they are NOT interior... It's also
late for interior...(I think)...
Anyway, who knows...but again, some of these
"northern" "Clouded" Sulphurs look a bit
strange...
Alex
From: Vermont Butterfly Survey on
behalf of Bryan Pfeiffer
Sent: Thu 8/25/2005 9:02 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VTLEPS] North Pownal 6
You gotta get up and out pretty early to beat Sweet Nectar
Hemeon to a
first state record. So, alas, another one eludes me. Perhaps I get
some
meager credit for giving Kevin the incentive: I told him I'd be down
there
promptly if he didn't find it today.
Congratulations! (Looks as if I'll have to stick to finding new
Vermont
dragonflies.)
Regards,
-Bryan Pfeiffer (unfortunately no relation to Martha)
At 8/25/2005, you wrote:
>This has been a busy summer and consequently I have not been out
since mid
>July. Kent's info on Checkered Skippers gave me incentive but I had
made
>commitments and tomorrow morning I am leaving for 10 days. I worked
hard
>got to jobs early but still didn't finish til 3:30 in Greenbush, an
hour
>plus away from Vt. I decided why not. I got to a favorite area of
mine in
>North Pownal 6. After checking numerous fields I was giving up, it
was
>past 6. The only skippers I'd seen were Pecks and Least and maybe
a
>Tawny-edged. I looked back over the field one last time and saw
something
>different. It looked almost gray in the distance and flew like
a
>Duskywing. I got close enough to see it when it landed briefly and
sure
>enough it was a Checkered. Then it flew... and flew... and flew. I
chased
>it around this field 4 or 5 times losing it in the poor light and
growing
>shadows. I lost it one more time and couldn't relocate it.
>Muttering, "they'll never believe this" I headed for
the truck again,
>when I saw it. It fluttered about briefly and landed on a red
clover.
>Trying desperately to keep my shadow off it I got close enough for a
swing
>and got the voucher. I couldn't have done it with my old net.
Kevin
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