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Re: [OM] Harris' Checkerspot

Subject: Re: [OM] Harris' Checkerspot
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:01:25 +0100
The first one is a graph, Mike.  The second is a good one of a Checkerspot.

Chris

On 16 Jun 2013, at 04:01, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:

> away.  This was the only one we saw. This small bright butterfly was 
> named  in honor of Thaddeus W. Harris, who died in 1856. This 
> Checkerspot is a quintessential northern “wet meadow” butterfly and 
> really isn't all that common.  It should be a "species of conservation 
> concern"
> 
> http://www.butterfliesofmassachusetts.net/harris-checkerspot_files/image006.gif
> 
> Our area may be at the southern limit of the species may be withdrawing 
> northward due to climate change.
> 
> Oh, enough info, here is the critter from earlier today:
> 
> http://www.olyendomike.com/Macro/Macro-2013/27352162_6bnt92#!i=2577065510&k=4J7Ht5H&lb=1&s=L
> 

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