シェル·クリークまで私の週末のmothing旅行からいくつかの画像, サンルイスオビスポ郡. 中央海岸に沿っ春先は素晴らしいです, そして、バック道路は花ウォッチャー充填した. 週末のドライブの家族によって占められて車の数十がありました, many had packed lunches and sat to watch the flowers grow. While I am happy to see people enjoying the natural beauty, it is difficult to see the damage their trampling can cause. しかしながら, if more people could get out to appreciate nature, perhaps it would be easier to protect. The flowers were so bright and dense it was difficult to focus on moths, and after a few hours I started to go a little snow-blind (or as it shall forever be now known, flower-blind). Here are a few feeble attempts to capture the beauty.
(more images after the break)
Most likely a Schinia species feeding here.
Heliothodes diminutiva
Heliolonche joaquinensis
Xanthothrix neumoegeni
これは Adela thorpella, or a fairy moth. Note the incredibly long antennae.
The full list of Lepidoptera seen for the day:
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Heliothodes diminutiva(ヤガ科)
Heliolonche joaquinensis (ヤガ科)
Heliolonche modicella (ヤガ科)
Schinia crotchii (ヤガ科)
Schinia amaryllis (ヤガ科)
Schinia pulchripennis (ヤガ科)
Xanthothrix neumoegeni (ヤガ科)
Axenus arvalis (ヤガ科)
Achyra occidentalis (亜科)
Adela thorpella (Adelidae)
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Danaus plexippus
ヴァネッサアタランタ
Coenonympha tullia
Anthocharis sara
モンキチョウeurytheme
Everes amyntula
Glaucopsyche lygdamus
Plebejus acmon
クール – another entomology blog, and a well-written, nicely-illustrated one at that. Beetles are my game, but I’ve noted a pretty moth or two.
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Thank you for the welcome!
That shot of Xanthothrix neumoegeni is amazing!
How do you differentiate between Heliolonche joaquinensis and H. セレリス? The pic in your goose chase post looks awfully similar to above.
また, which gold flower is that in the 1st pic that looks like a river of gold? Carol Leigh stopped her wildflower hotsheet b/c of inconsiderate trampling. It’s too bad.
It’s all in the hindwings. H. joaquinensis has black wings with a white bar and H. celeris has orange wings with a yellow bar. They are also a few hundred miles apart in distribution.
I was just assuming that flower was L. californica. I didn’t look closer…