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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Slip Bluff’
Southern Invasion
Posted in Butterflies and Moths, tagged butterflies, Funereal Duskywing, skippers, Slip Bluff on July 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Catching up on Summer Insects
Posted in Butterflies and Moths, Dragonflies, Other insects, Tiger Beetles, tagged beetles, butterflies, dragonflies, hairstreaks, Hitchcock Nature Center, Loess Hills, robber flies, skippers, Slip Bluff, Sylvan Runkel State Preserve, Tiger Beetles, Waubonsie State Park on June 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It has been almost a month since my last post. My plan had always been to post once a week during the summer, summarizing whatever I did each weekend. Well, I slacked off for no good reason the week of May 24, after my dad and I had a good time hiking around the Loess [...]
Hairstreaks
Posted in Butterflies and Moths, tagged butterflies, hairstreaks, Slip Bluff on January 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One of my favorite spots to explore is Slip Bluff Park in Decatur County. This county park has the highest density of breeding Summer Tanagers that I have seen in Iowa and probably the best list of rare odonates of any location in the state. It is also one of my favorite spots for butterflies. [...]
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