Sighting for June 6, 2013
Rob Santry
Hwy 89 at Pondosa (Shasta County), followed by Bear Creek and meadows (Siskiyou County. Siskiyou County, CA
Siskiyou County, CA
- Western Tiger Swallowtail 3
- Pale Swallowtail 2
- Gray Marble 1
- Orange Sulphur 2
- Lustrous Copper 2
- Edith's Copper 1
- Lilac-bordered Copper 1
- Western Pine Elfin 1
- Juniper Hairstreak 3
- Greenish Blue 7
- Boisduval's Blue 4
- Atlantis Fritillary 4
- Pacific Fritillary Abundant
- Northern Checkerspot 4
- Hoffmann's Checkerspot 2
- Field Crescent 3
- Edith's Checkerspot 3
- California Tortoiseshell 1
- Mourning Cloak 3
- Lorquin's Admiral 3
- California Sister 1
- Common Ringlet 1
- Mexican Cloudywing 2
- Propertius Duskywing 4
- Common Checkered-Skipper 1
- Tawny-edged Skipper 4
- Sonoran Skipper 4
Field Crescent
Pacific Fritillary
Edith's Checkerspot
I drove back up to the lovely meadows south and east of Mt. Shasta to try and photograph a Tawny-edged Skipper. This small colony of Tawny-edged Skipper was refound by Dennis Holmes and described by MacNeill in the Lepidopterists’ Journal. It is apparently a disjunct population of Tawny-edged Skipper. Perhaps this is the only locale in California to photograph them. See the following document for details:
“The Journal Of the Lepidopterists’ Society”, Volume 47 Number 3, dated 1993 - “Comments on the Genus Polites…” for species and locale info.