2025 May 24

2025 May 24

   Aziza Cooper writes:  Today, May 24 at the trails near Olympic Drive, there was a Western Pine Elfin and 15 Western Spring Azures. I also got a record photo of a Cedar Hairstreak.

   At Wrigglesworth Lake there was a Two-banded Grizzled (“Checkered”) Skipper, a Green Comma, one more Western Pine Elfin and three Western Spring Azures.

Green Comma Polygonia faunus (Lep.: Nymphalidae) 
Aziza Cooper
Dorsal view

Green Comma Polygonia faunus (Lep.: Nymphalidae) 
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Lateral view

Cedar Hairstreak Callophrys (Mitourus) gryneus 
(Lep.: Lycaenidae)
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Western Pine Elfin  Callophrys (Incisalia) eryphon 
(Lep.: Lycaenidae) 
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Two-banded Skipper Pyrgus ruralis  (Lep.: Hesperiidae) 
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