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Author Archives: Rick
In Defense of Plants: Butterflies in a Changing World
This week’s drop of a new podcast from In Defense of Plants (a terrific weekly listen if you don’t already know it) features University of Arizona’s Katy Prudic (an eButterfly co-director) as she discusses work she has been doing with … Continue reading
A Tale of Two (or More) Crescents
Oh for the simple days when in the mid-Atlantic region if you saw a crescent you could safely assume it was the common, indeed almost ubiquitous, Pearl Crescent (Phyciodes tharos). The only doubt to contend with would be if you … Continue reading
Posted in conservation, evolution, general butterfly news, Identification tips, maryland, sightings, state butterflies, taxonomy
Tagged crescent, pavulaan
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Low-hanging Fruit for Maryland Lep Observers
With the data from the Maryland Biodiversity Project in hand that I posted about recently, I dug a little deeper to see where a diligent butterfly observer might make some easy dents in our understanding the distribution of Maryland butterflies. … Continue reading
2022 Was a Good Year — For New Butterfly Records
It appears that 2022 was a pretty good year for folks in MD prospecting for new county records. Thanks to Bill Hubick at the Maryland Biodiversity Project, we now know that 2022 gave Maryland lepsters three new county records, five … Continue reading
Posted in Calendar, general butterfly news, maryland, sightings, state butterflies
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Past Pleasures — Noel Humphrey’s British Butterflies
The still-gloomy end of winter, with its short days and cold temperatures, means we can spend time perusing some of the 19th-century lep-works without fear of missing out on what’s happening in the field. With this dispensation in mind, I’ve … Continue reading
Urban Life for Leps is Driving Their Evolution
Much work has been done on the effects of urbanization, and especially light and sounds, on bird fauna. In general, the effects have been fairly striking, including more singing at “night” (because there is artificial lighting) and changes to song … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, conservation, European butterflies, evolution, general butterfly news
Tagged urbanization
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New Year, New Challenge
[Updated to clarify sightings must be AFTER January 1, 2023. Cut-and-paste is the nightmare of editors] It’s barely six weeks now in the mid-Atlantic until we can be confident of seeing early spring butterflies, so it must be time to … Continue reading
Summer Field Assistants Wanted — Yosemite
Yosemite’s Plant Ecology Progam seeks field assistants for the park’s alpine bee inventory project during summer 2023. In collaboration with the USDA Bee Lab we are conducting an inventory and initiating a DNA barcode library of alpine bees in the … Continue reading
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A Skipper Out of Sync With Its Nectar Source?
This is likely to be the weekend that the first Leonard’s Skipper shows up at Soldiers Delight serpentine barrens in Baltimore Co. Last week they were AWOL but it was a terrific field experience for folks wanting to nail the … Continue reading
“Big Years” in the age of iNaturalist
Long-time readers of LepLog will remember that Tom Stock and I did a “Butterfly Big Year” effort for Maryland in 2013. Tom gave a terrific keynote presentation on this Big Year last fall at the 2021 Texas Butterfly Festival that … Continue reading
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