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Introducing a New Butterfly Species: Asher’s Blue (Celastrina asheri)
For the last few decades, lepidopterists in the west have been uncertain how to classify a variably-marked group of Celastrina (azure butterflies) in the Columbia River watershed. Until now, only two species were known in this area: Celastrina echo and Celastrina lucia. Individuals from east of the Cascades were often lumped with echo but some…
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A Blast from the Past
Watching Washington Butterflies with Bob Pyle: Number Forty John Hopfinger’s Lepidoptera of North Central Washington, 1956. Part 1 AUTHOR’S NOTE: John Hopfinger was one of our great pioneer Washington lepidopterists. He lived in Brewster, Douglas County, where he was an orchardist. He often hunted butterflies with his friend Andy Anderson from Pateros, across the Columbia…
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2019 WBA Very Wet Spring Field Trip Reports
Rescheduled! Cancelled! Rescheduled! Yakima Training Center field trip rescheduled May 11 The Department of Defense Yakima Training Center (YTC) occupies 327,000 acres of beautiful shrub-steppe at varying elevations and habitats near Yakima. Our cancelled April date was moved due to poor weather. So on May 11 ten “vetted” WBA members visited this expansive area to…
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2017 WBA Study Weekend
Ellensburg – July 14-16 We had a good turnout for last year’s event in the far off Wallowa Mountains of eastern Oregon, and enjoyed hobnobbing with many Oregonians who love their butterflies, but we missed many of you! Our WBA Board was thus motivated to pull this year’s conference in much closer to just about…
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2014 WBA Programs
January 25 – Winter Party Twenty people met January 25 for our annual winter party at the home of Bill and Heidi Weber (Jonathan Pelham’s sister) in Mountlake Terrace, with great food and camaraderie and the traditional “white elephant” gift exchange. Gifts included some much coveted items that, under the rules, changed hands multiple times.…
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2015 WBA Field Trips Report
Cowiche Canyon April 18. Al Wagar Robinson Canyon & Reecer Canyon, June 6. Al Wagar Swakane Canyon, June 13. Al Wagar Little Pend Oreille 4th of July butterfly Count, July 12. John Baumann Though numbers of species and total number of butterflies seen were both low, we were really pleased with a very good human…
