Marine Blues Rule Southern New Mexico
Check out some early summer reports from several New Mexico butterfly adventurers.
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New Mexico Butterflies
Steve Cary’s blog about butterflies of New Mexico.
Guest Post: New Mexico Butterfly Photography Adventures
This post features another gripping New Mexico butterfly photography adventure courtesy of professional nature photographer Bryan Reynolds!
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In Selvi’s Backyard
Many of our regular spring species, including Southwestern Orangetip and Spring White, have been sighted, for example in Selvi’s Los Alamos garden and elsewhere.
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Spring Butterflies: Last Rite
In spring, Monarchs from Mexico are working their way north and east into their milkweed breadbasket: moister parts of the Great Plains. Therefore, in New Mexico, most spring Monarchs are seen southeast of the diagonal from Las Cruces to Portales.
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Butterfly Rites of Spring III: Flower Munchers
Brown Elfin is of a group of Hairstreaks (Callophrys spp.) that we see in spring; many are Elfins. Each butterfly species in this informal group is hosted by one (or two) spring-blooming shrubs.
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Butterfly Rites of Spring II: Desert Hilltoppers
After overwintering as pupae, several species of whites and orangetips eclose in early spring and immediately set about searching for mates on desert hilltops. This group includes Spring White, Desert Orangetip, Southwestern Orangetip, and Desert Marble.
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Butterfly Rites of Spring I: Adult Hibernators
Each of our resident butterflies has a plan to survive winter. Those plans boil down to being (a) dormant (inactive) because there is no food for any life stage and (b) able to tolerate long periods of sub-freezing temperatures.
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Butterfly Blog: Bryan Reynolds’ April 2017 Butterfly Photography Expedition, Part 2
This was the fourth day of my trip, and I met up with my good friend Mike Sanchez from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. We wanted to check out the northern side of the Sandias, so we started out early and the first place we stopped was the Tunnel Spring trailhead.
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