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Post by admin on Sept 13, 2011 17:52:25 GMT -8
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Post by nomihoudai on Sept 14, 2011 6:29:38 GMT -8
Put them all in a box and send them over to Europe !!!!!!
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Post by saturniidave on Sept 14, 2011 14:40:40 GMT -8
Hell yeah, I'll have some!
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Post by wingedwishes on Sept 14, 2011 18:14:54 GMT -8
I wonder why they did not show photos of the lep in the article.
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Post by starlightcriminal on Sept 15, 2011 7:06:49 GMT -8
Neat little butterfly, we should organize and insectnet trip to go and "help" with their pest problem.
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Post by bobw on Sept 15, 2011 7:20:03 GMT -8
No matter how much of a pest they are I'm sure you could still get in trouble for catchiong one for a collection!
Bob
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Post by starlightcriminal on Sept 15, 2011 7:21:29 GMT -8
Oh, is this a rare/protected butterfly? I don't know much about the history of this insect, I thought it was just a bloom of an otherwise average butterfly.
UPDATE: Ok, so I checked and don't see that this butterfly is protected anywhere that any other butterfly would not also receive protection (state parks, etc.) so can you please explain why this butterfly is a no-no? I'm always afraid I am missing something.
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Post by admin on Sept 15, 2011 10:58:03 GMT -8
The butterfly is not a 'no-no' in itself. Not protected. It's just that some areas where it lives may be off limits to collecting wildlife of any kind, such as state parks and National Monuments. National Forests are OK to collect.
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Post by starlightcriminal on Sept 16, 2011 5:38:50 GMT -8
That's what I thought, but its distribution isn't entirely contained by parks or anything is it? It's neat, you west coast folks get a lot of cool Leps that make me quite jealous at times. We get a lot of invasives way down here. Rare strays from the tropics, but you get those from Mexico. I need to go collecting in your neighborhood someday. So many places to collect on my bucket list, I better live forever.  |
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Post by bluemoth on Sept 16, 2011 7:11:26 GMT -8
Hay Star I got a lot of places I wish to go collecting to. In 2000 I had a chance to collect a few Pine Whites near Mammoth Mountain in CA. They are a very nice little white butterfly. I would love to be able to go to Washington to collect the Pine Whites there. I agree that a bunch of us should get together to go on a collecting tip next year. May be we could all chip in to rent a van and drive there. That would be a lot of fun to meet other collectors.
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Post by admin on Sept 16, 2011 7:35:42 GMT -8
Here's an interesting story. I went to Mammoth Lakes one summer and saw pine whites fluttering around high up in the pine trees in the village. They would only come down to ground level to nectar on flowers, at which time you could catch them. As is turned out the flowers they liked most were those planted in residential front yards of the the people living there. So I found myself collecting these things right on the doorsteps of people's houses, on their potted flowers! It was strange to see a grown man walking around a residential neighborhood with a butterfly net, and tresspassing on people's property.
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Post by paradesia on Sept 16, 2011 20:03:39 GMT -8
I remember being on the University of Washington (Seattle) campus taking the dental aptitude test (DAT) on a late summer/early fall day. During a break, I walked outside and noticed some 30 Pine Whites flying around a large old Douglas fir. Anyone who has witnessed their flight will appreciate their slow, lazy, floppy, yet delicate flight. I sat there mesmerized feeling relaxed and calm tranquilized by their understated dance amongst the old giant tree.
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