adult feeding on wolfsbane
Unusual one! TWO yellow stripes on abdomen and yellow hairs on the sternites. Yay. One of two seen. @johnascher I'm basing this ID guess on the sternites and the comment on BugGuide regarding the photo I posted.
Was observed using Astagalus whitneyi. Also submitted this through BAMONA where it was accepted as Friday's Blue.
David Rawlinson spotted this one.
Older photo. Orange Sulphur, Colias eurytheme, normal m. plus paler "white" female (Shapiro and Manolis p114). Sears Point Preserve (Sonoma Land Trust), Sonoma County, CA.
Plant 130 cm tall. Anthers 1.5 mm. Awn originates approximately 1 mm below tip of lemma teeth. Leaf sheath mostly closed (margins fused). Habitat road ditch at edge of thickets and young forest, on clay soil, probably with plenty of water available.
Female with sphragis
This is the form Henry Hemphill referred to as ‘kelseyi’. Unlike typical flat Haplotrema minimum this form has a more conical high spire and is less broadly spread. I’ve found them near Glass Beach and also near the mouth of Pudding Creek in Mendocino County.
Coastal sand dunes, grass-shrub habitat.
@asabspade fyi
Out today with Asa Spade, Seth Sarab and David Rawlinson; saw this anomalous blue. `