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vandenberg
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Yellow Butterflies
It's that time of year for the yellow butterfly.
Litterally thousands of the little buggers traveling by here in Nopolo. See them come in over the sea, must come from the islands, and travel south.
Never see one go in the opposite direction. Any one can clarify where they come from and where they're going ? Are they migratory, like Monarchs ?
I do remember ,years ago, them getting so thick on my truck radiator, that it actually overheated.
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Martyman
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I drove through a bunch of yellow butterflies this past weekend in Lake County in California. I imagine with all the rains in baja there will be
multiple species of moths and butterflies.
Does anyone know the technique for pinning them down for a collection?
One camping trip to Punta Mechudo I had huge moths flying out of my truck for 10 days.
I believe they just get carried directionally by the prevailing winds.
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Natalie Ann
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I love those yellow butterflies - they bring so much cheer. It's difficult not to break into a grin, no matter one's previous mood, when walking
through a herd of those sweet little fluttering beasties.
Nena
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bajajudy
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Love bugs...I believe because they travel in pairs
There used to be places in Florida where they would clean them from your radiator to avoid over heating.
They are beautiful arent they?
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dtbushpilot
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I was fishing 25 miles off shore in Los Barriles and saw a yellow butterfly fly past. They seem to have to work pretty hard to stay aloft and I
couldn't help but wonder how they could fly that far without landing. The last I saw of him (or her) he was headed for the mainland.
On my next trip I saw one floating on the surface and as I approached he flew away so apparently they can lay on the water without getting wet......or
maybe I drank too much beer that day....dt
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Yellow Butterflies are letting you know that fall is coming. 
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Bob and Susan
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today from san ignacio to mulege...BILLIONS!!!
had to wash off the radiator when we arrived home...
we're now on the "butterfly most-wanted list"
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Russ
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How strange? I also had thousands all heading kinda NW yesterday. Today I haven't noticed one. there were quite a few on Monday also. I wish they
would hang out here and the skitters, bobos gnats and no-see-m's would go to where ever the little yellow butterflies have gone. Does any one know
what those very tiny flying things are that appear to be caring around a piece of white fluff twice their size are? They love to land on your eyes,
nose and ears. I don't know if they bite. Without the piece of fluff they could be no-see-m's.
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elizabeth
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Does anyone know what kind of butterfly they are? I've been wondering, too...ran into a flock (is that a bunch of butterflies?) in the open water
between Coronado and the shore, and of course, they're all over town.
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tehag
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Butterfly
Taken a while back right near Ed's house in Nopoló. I think it is one of the sulphurs; there are several kinds. Maybe tailed orange sulphur, Pyristia
proterpia.
[Edited on 9-18-2008 by tehag]
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bacquito
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sulfur butterflies
| Quote: | Originally posted by tehag
Taken a while back right near Ed's house in Nopoló. I think it is one of the sulfurs; there are several kinds. Maybe tailed orange sulfur, Pyristia
proterpia.
[Edited on 9-18-2008 by tehag]
[Edited on 9-18-2008 by tehag] |
They are jillions of them around alfalfa fields in Imperial County and they are called sulfur butterflies. Yep, fall is on the way.
bacquito
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The beach at Posada Concepcion has 40-50 little "huttle-patches", and the flow going by the house is never ending....all going south-
Things are expensive, but at least we get a free trip around the sun once a year
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vandenberg
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No answer to my question " do they migrate and what do the caterpillars and cocoons look like ?" And where do they come from and where are they going
? If they hatched here, wouldn't we see cocoons and caterpillars by the thousands ?
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I am oohing and aahing as I look at these pictures. Though I love spring and summer in Idaho, I LOVE fall in Baja. There is simply no better place
to be. And seeing these gorgeous butterflies convinces me I'm right. I have never seen these on the coast in Baja but as I mentioned in another
thread had experienced one migration of Monarchs and it was amazing.
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tehag
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yellow butterflies
I'm back in Loreto for 3 days now and have taken pictures of several yellow or near-yellow butterflies. The one I'm pretty sure is the big swarmer is
the Statira. They put to sea in vast numbers from South America according to my Audubon book. They are also resident in parts of North America.
Statira - Aphrissa statira
Sleepy orange - Eurema nicippe
Dogface butterfly - Zerene cesonia
Western white – Pontia occidentalis
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Ken Bondy
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Magnificent photos tehag!
carpe diem!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by CasaManzana
The beach at Posada Concepcion has 40-50 little "huttle-patches", and the flow going by the house is never ending....all going south-
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I love all the pictures, but this one really grabs me---fantastic.
Have to look in my old pictures, but I am almost sure we saw lots of those bright yellow butterflies in Costa Rica on a butterfly refuge.
In Bahia Asuncion, we suddenly had lots of butterflies, but they looked more like monarch. They were not monarchs, but similar---
don't see them in the great pictures from Tehag
Diane
My apologies for not being able to answer the original question. If a name can be definitely be attached, google should give up the answers.
[Edited on 11-15-2008 by jdtrotter]
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CasaManzana
Great pic, beautiful! Thanks
Iflyfish
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Natalie Ann
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Oh tehag, those are exceptional butterfly shots! Very nicely presented. Thank you... those yellow flutterbys always make me smile.
Nena
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Ran into them in the British Virgin Islands. It was our first time chartering a sail boat in the area. We were running down swell, wing on wing in a
40' sloop and we had a whole flock, swarm? following us for at least a couple of miles. there were hundreds of them all flittering along within about
10' of us. Those little butterflies combined with the beauty of the Carribean confirmed we really were in paradise.
In Memory of E-57
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