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Post by 58chevy on Jul 19, 2019 17:31:16 GMT -8
I searched unsuccessfully for Colorado hairstreaks last week at 2 different locations. The first was near Lake Granby, the second near Colorado Springs. Has anybody seen them this season, or know a good spot to find them?
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Post by leptraps on Jul 19, 2019 18:39:43 GMT -8
The Garden of the God's in Colorado Springs was an excellent location. Someone told me It is a Colorado Springs City Park.
I collected them in Unaweep,Canyon south west of Grand Junction.
I will look in my card file. There were several locations east of Colorado Springs and a location near Fort Morgan. Any where that Gambels Oak grew, the Colorado Hairstreaks could be found.
Squaw Peak South of Park City, Utah was another good area for Colorado Hairstreaks.
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Post by mikeh on Jul 19, 2019 19:30:37 GMT -8
Anywhere with lots of Gambel Oak you can find them but in my experience it is more late July to early August in Colorado. Just tap bunch of trees and watch if anything takes off and lands at a reasonable level. Sometimes you can find a tree that is very attractive and has a lot on it, probably due to sap.
My go-to spot would be the trails around Indian Creek campground in Douglas county, but I have seen them all over the state including around Steamboat Springs, Glenwood Springs, Pagosa Springs, Durango, and Paonia.
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Post by leptraps on Jul 20, 2019 6:36:03 GMT -8
Sometime in the late 1970's( ), I made made one of my first collecting trips specifically for butterflies. Light Traps had not yet developed in my brain yet. I did have several funnel type Bait Traps. We stopped several times to collect along the Platte River in Nebraska. Lots of little green Hairstreaks (M. Siva) and several Erynnis species. It was late afternoon by the time we got to Fort Morgan in Colorado. We exited for gas and stopped at out door hamburger stand that grilled on an open five. The burgers were huge, 2+ inches thick. There was a community park on the north side of I-70. We found a picnic table and were busy consuming a fantastic hamburger when I noticed a small patch of (western) Dog Bane and the triangle shape of several Hairstreaks,big Hairstreak. They were Hypaurotis crysalus. There was a mad dash back to the car for nets and we each collected several. When we returned to our burgers, they were gone, sitting a short distance away was a stray dog, licking his chops. That was probably the first big meal that the ragged looking puppy had in some time. We threw him/her some crackers and headed west. I have often wondered what happen to that dog. Unless some one took him in, his survival odds were slim.
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