08-14-2006, 02:18 PM
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and in case you were curious, that butterfly is an "Angle-wing". It is related to the Tortoise-shell.
(My dad taught me butterflies as a kid, he is a biology teacher and avid Lepidoptera Society member, with a huge butterfly collection).
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Cat_man,
Thanks for the identification. Those butterflies were all over. I must have hit a hundred of them with the truck as I was driving up the west side of the Cascades. They were all over the road. Then when we got to the boat ramp there were hundreds of them flying and landing on the warm rocks. I surfed around the Internet trying to ID the critters but quickly found what you no doubt know. There are zillions of butterflies! I was curious about their sudden heavy concentration. Someone else told me that they were probably migratory. On the other board several flyfishers had noticed them in the general area also so if it is a migration it must be a huge one.
z~
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and in case you were curious, that butterfly is an "Angle-wing". It is related to the Tortoise-shell.
(My dad taught me butterflies as a kid, he is a biology teacher and avid Lepidoptera Society member, with a huge butterfly collection).
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Cat_man,
Thanks for the identification. Those butterflies were all over. I must have hit a hundred of them with the truck as I was driving up the west side of the Cascades. They were all over the road. Then when we got to the boat ramp there were hundreds of them flying and landing on the warm rocks. I surfed around the Internet trying to ID the critters but quickly found what you no doubt know. There are zillions of butterflies! I was curious about their sudden heavy concentration. Someone else told me that they were probably migratory. On the other board several flyfishers had noticed them in the general area also so if it is a migration it must be a huge one.
z~
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