શેલ ક્રીક નીચે મારા સપ્તાહમાં mothing પ્રવાસ માંથી થોડા છબીઓ, લુઇસ ઓબિસ્પો કાઉન્ટી. કેન્દ્રિય દરિયાકિનારે પ્રારંભિક વસંત અદભૂત છે, અને પાછળ રસ્તાઓ ફૂલ જોનારામાં સાથે પેક કરવામાં આવી હતી. એક સપ્તાહમાં ડ્રાઈવ માટે પરિવારો દ્વારા હાથ હસ્તકના કાર ડઝનેક હતા, 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. જો કે, 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.
Heliolonche joaquinensis
આ છે Adela thorpella, or a fairy moth. Note the incredibly long antennae.
The full list of Lepidoptera seen for the day:
શલભ
Heliothodes diminutiva(નોક્ટુઇડે)
Heliolonche joaquinensis (નોક્ટુઇડે)
Heliolonche modicella (નોક્ટુઇડે)
Schinia crotchii (નોક્ટુઇડે)
Schinia amaryllis (નોક્ટુઇડે)
Schinia pulchripennis (નોક્ટુઇડે)
ઝેન્થોથ્રિક્સ ન્યુમોજેની (નોક્ટુઇડે)
Axenus arvalis (નોક્ટુઇડે)
Achyra occidentalis (Crambidae)
Adela thorpella (Adelidae)
પતંગિયા
Danaus plexippus
લાલ એડમિરલ
Coenonympha tullia
Anthocharis sara
કોલિઆસ યુરીથીમ
Everes amyntula
Glaucopsyche lygdamus
પ્લેબેજસ એકમોન
સરસ – 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. celeris? The pic in your goose chase post looks awfully similar to above.
પણ, 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…