[louisianaleps] Re: Kisatchie Butterflies

  • From: "cwmaplc" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "cwmaplc@xxxxxxx" for DMARC)
  • To: jftrahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, LA Leps <louisianaleps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 21:17:42 -0600

I had a great first day of the season today on Castor Plunge Road in the 
Rapides Unit of KNF.
 
5 Pipevine ST
1 E Tiger ST
35+ Falcate OT
7 Cloudless Suls
4 Sleepy Or
2 Harvester  (at mud)
14 Frosted Elfins
4 Spring Azures
1 Pearl Cres
2 Am Lady
1 Question Mark
1 E Comma
12 Goatweed LW
6 duskywings (Horace’s I think. Still working on id.)

Craig Marks


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From: jftrahan <jftrahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Date: 03/14/2015  4:36 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: LA Leps <louisianaleps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Subject: [louisianaleps] Kisatchie Butterflies 

The weather in Shreveport has been dreadful.  If it's not freezing,  it's 
raining and/or overcast.  We haven't seen the sun in almost a month.  You can 
imagine what that does for butterflies.  Last week, I checked for butterflies 
at Eddie Jones Park and saw a total of three.  Not species, but butterflies.  
This morning Charlie Lyon, Jean Trahan and I went to Cotile Lake in Rapides 
Parish northwest of Alexandria to see White-winged Scoters that were reported 
there.  We did find the Scoters and visited Kisatchie NF in Natchitoches Parish 
on the way back.  What made it really nice was that the sun started to shine 
and the temperature soared to 76 degrees.  That lifted our spirits.  Great for 
butterflies.  We found 11 species which included two new ones for 
Charlie--Henry's Elfin and Juvenal's Duskywing.  The complete list is below.  
On the way back to Shreveport, the sky became overcast, the temperature fell to 
61 degrees, and we drove through drizzle to get home.  

1    Pipevine Swallowtail
1    Zebra Swallowtail
1    Orange Sulphur
3    Cloudless Sulphur
1    Sleepy Orange
1    Henry's Elfin
7    American Snout
1    Zebra
1    Question Mark
5    Goatweed Leafwing
2    Juvenal's Duskywing

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