Last Sunday, Cory Gregory and I made a trip up to Plymouth County in the far northwest corner of Iowa. Plymouth County borders South Dakota and is separated from it by the Big Sioux River. It contains some of the most extensive prairie tracts left in Iowa, including the Nature Conservancy’s Broken Kettle Grasslands, home [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Funereal Duskywing’
A New Species for Iowa
Posted in Butterflies and Moths, Dragonflies, Other insects, tagged butterflies, cicadas, dragonflies, Funereal Duskywing, Loess Hills, robber flies, skippers on August 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Southern Invasion
Posted in Butterflies and Moths, tagged butterflies, Funereal Duskywing, skippers, Slip Bluff on July 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
On July 20, Chris Edwards wrote a post to the Iowa Insect email list relaying Mike Reese’s suggestion that Iowans be on the lookout for Funereal Duskywing. This is a skipper species from desert habitats of southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas with a known tendency to stray northward. It had recently been reported [...]
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