Field trip report: Col. Devin Trail by Marceline VandeWater
Fifteen participants started up the Colonel Devin Trail from Washington ParkTrailhead surprised how lush everything was. The weather was perfect, sunny, and later partly cloudy. 39 species of butterflies were seen within the group, with a Northern Crescent (see photo) and a Tawny-edged Skipper being the highlights of the day, as they normally are "truly above-the-Rim" species…
Butterfly list: Two-tailed Swallowtail, Western Tiger Swallowtail, Checkered White, Sleepy Orange, Orange Sulphur, Southern Dogface, Mexican Yellow, Queen Alexandra’s Sulphur, Dainty Sulphur, Bramble Hairstreak, Thicket Hairstreak, Marine Blue, Reakirt’s Blue, Western Tailed-Blue, Spring “Echo” Azure, Acmon Blue, Melissa Blue, Nais Metalmark, Zela Metalmark, Variegated Fritillary, Northwestern “Atlantis” Fritillary, Mylitta Crescent, Northern Crescent, Satyr Comma, Red-spotted Purple, Weidemeyer’s Admiral, Arizona Sister, Mourning Cloak, Common Buckeye, Canyonland Satyr, Silver-spotted Skipper, Golden-banded Skipper, Pacuvius Duskywing, Northern Cloudywing, Common Checkered-Skipper, Orange Skipperling, Tawny-edged Skipper, Deva Skipper, Bronze Roadside-Skipper.
I want to thank all participants for a great trip, and hope you will come out again soon! Marceline
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