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Topic: Skipperlings


  
  Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
Range: The Poweshiek Skipperling is known from only a very limited range, in just a few states west and south of the Great Lakes, and in a small area of southeastern Manitoba.
Remarks: This species has been reported from Canada in the past, but the early reports were all misidentified Garita Skipperlings.
In July 1985 it was found to be locally abundant near Vita, Stuartburn, and Gardenton in southeastern Manitoba (Catling and Lafontaine, 1986).
www.cbif.gc.ca /spp_pages/butterflies/species/PoweshiekSkipperling_e.php   (290 words)

  
 European Skipperling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The power-line jogs east along the border, and crosses a big, weedy gravel pit that fronts on D Street.
Since it overwinters as eggs, a rare condition among skippers, it can easily be transported in hay, so that spontaneous irruptions can occur independent of the advancing front of colonization.
I consider the European Skipperling an essentially positive addition to the Western Washington butterfly fauna, which, as most know, is fairly impoverished.
crawford.tardigrade.net /bugs/BugofMonth37.html   (960 words)

  
 On Six Legs
According to writer Kate Slusark, “The one place you'd expect to find the elusive Poweshiek skipperling is in Poweshiek County, where it was discovered 135 years ago.
I went to Arbor Lake in Grinnell to join the search for the tiny skipperling, which in the past has thrived in native prairie habitats of the area.
When I arrived at the lake, I encountered some heavy equipment operators who rather bemusedly assured me that they had seen neither skipperlings nor anyone who appeared to be searching for the long-lost butterfly.
www.agriculture.purdue.edu /agcomm/newscolumns/archives/OSL/2005/July/050714OSL.htm   (703 words)

  
 Pygmy Blue Butterfly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The golden hairstreak (1980) turned up as soon as we found the golden chinquapins in Skamania County (I looked again at the Hood Canal chinquapins this year, with Kristi Knowles; and though the trees were robust in one area, we found no sign of H.
Sachem skippers (1990) and European Skipperlings (2002) have both colonized our fauna, the former from the south, the latter from the north.
Dainty sulphurs (1975) and pygmy blues (2004) have reached the state at least once in their annual expansions, before dying back.
crawford.tardigrade.net /bugs/BugofMonth41.html   (1185 words)

  
 Raven Rock State Park Butterfly Count on July 31, 2001
The 95 Red Admirals far exceeded the average of 5 seen on the past four counts.
104 of the 105 Southern Skipperlings seen were in a field with common Bermuda grass (a host plant) and flowering Wahlenbergia marginata (a small flower in the Bluebell family that is a favorite nectar source for this species in the park).
I saw the Ocola Skipper nectaring on the Zinnias in my yard after the other participants had departed.
www.carolinabutterflysociety.org /Trips2001/july312001.htm   (395 words)

  
 Butterflies have to hunt now
Mine grow eight feet tall and the poor Georgia Power man needs a machete to read the meter.
The Least Skipperlings and Swallowtails spend sunny afternoons there.
I see a lot of them too on the Glory Bower on the other side of the house.
www.clarkecountydemocrat.com /news/2005/0811/Lifestyle   (419 words)

  
 High Island 4th of July Butterfly Count
As we exited our cars, the day's only Red Admiral was working the nearby hedgerow.
Walking across the first field turned up over 100 Southern Skipperlings, as well as several Great Southern Whites and numerous Little Sulphurs.
Exploring a combination of the trails at Smith Oaks added such species as Southern Cloudywing, and Juvenal's, Horaces's, and Funereal Duskywings.
texasnaturalist.net /butterflies/hibc96.html   (538 words)

  
 Cross Timbers Master Naturalist - Current Features
And these are the closed-winged skippers we'll most likely see:
*Since I knew you would ask, the tiny skipperlings share characteristics of both spread- and closed-winged skippers.
They feed on grasses like the latter but open forward and hind wings at the same time like spread-winged skippers.
www.ctmn.org /archives/200302_2C.html   (2016 words)

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