http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/ Ocean State Butterflies Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:48:19 GMT Dann http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/886 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/886 Ah good, I was worried that it would coincide with the Bioblitz since they were pushing that back a week this year. Should be fun. --Dann Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:06:51 GMT july_lewis http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/885 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/885 We've picked dates for this year's RI butterfly counts! At these events, amateurs and experts go into 15 mile diameter 'count circles' and identify as many Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:43:16 GMT Walter http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/884 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/884 A number of Winter Moths were seen on Norton Drive, Cumberland the week before Thanksgiving. Walter Bosse I took a number of Moth photos throughout the year, I Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:50:04 GMT David Gregg http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/883 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/883 Harry, all, What a great idea to expand your databasing work into the moths. RINHS has been databasing moths from RI for a while, not very systematically, Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:13:17 GMT pavulaan@... http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/882 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/882 Thanks July! I think that was the report I remember. I think the copy of the database I sent you might have the supplemental moth records at the bottom of the Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:08:14 GMT july_lewis http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/881 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/881 Thanks Harry! Yes, I got an email from a woman, Sylvia Petrie, who photographed a Black Witch moth on her screen door in Peacedale, 8/22/09. Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:20:35 GMT hpbutterflies http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/880 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/880 If anyone has interesting moth photos or records that they wish to either share or have identified, please feel free to post them here and/or on the photos Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:24:16 GMT Walter http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/879 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/879 There were thousands of Brant on the Grass at Beavertail SP plus another large raft just north of there. There were 20+ horned Larks jus north(to the right) of Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:10:08 GMT Walter http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/878 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/878 There were 2 Carolina Wrens at my Feeder this morning. Walter Bosse Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:13:42 GMT Walter http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/877 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/877 THe Valley Breeze reported that THE TOWN of Cumberland is nrgotiating to buy 5 Sq. Miles of land for Open Space. The Property is between Diamond Hill road and Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:45:45 GMT Walter http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/876 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/876 Today I had A Fox Sparrow at THE Cumberland Monastery, feeding on the ground with dozens of other Sparrows. Walre Bosse Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:52:56 GMT hpbutterflies http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/875 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/875 Francis: The Crescent in your photo appears to be a female of the Pearl/Northern Crescent group. Pearl Crescent females are normally uniformly orange above Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:08:12 GMT bioman462000 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/874 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/874 Bryan, It's under new photo. Should be showing as new photo. If not, it's last photo im my album "2009 Bioman". Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:40:54 GMT Bryan and Sarah http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/873 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/873 Hey Francis, Where did you post the photo? Thanks, Bryan Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:31:16 GMT bioman462000 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/872 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/oceanstatebutterflies/message/872 It looks to me, comparing the photo of Phaon Crescent on the web site that Harry just mentioned, that the butterfly in my photo is a Phaon Crescent, which is