Help! Canadian butterflies

[Sooty]

Anyone know how to ID Canadian beasties? I sure don't......

http://www.purvision.com/butterflies/zz ... index.html

[ChrisC]

I can't help with the butterflies i'm afraid but i had a wander and thoroughly enjoyed the Australian butterfly photos, the green awl and green-banded blues were the ones that caught my eye. after looking through that i thought i'd see how many types of moth you have over there...... only an estimated 22,000 species, so when are going to make a start on those?

Keep up the good work
Chris.

[Dave McCormick]

Hi,

Can't really help but found this website that may be of use to you: http://home.cogeco.ca/~lunker/bflylist.htm it has Canadian butterflies on it.

Also, saw you had Common Ringlet there which is the Large heath (Coenonympha tullia) in the UK and Europe but in US/Canada it has lots of subspecies which include:

C. t. ampelos (W. H. Edwards, 1871) – Northwest Common Ringlet
C. t. benjamini (McDunnough, 1928) – Prairie Ringlet
C. t. brenda
C. t. bosniae (Davenport, 1941)
C. t. california (Westwood, 1851) – California Ringlet
C. t. columbiana (McDunnough, 1928) – Ringlet
C. t. davus (Fabricius, 1777)
C. t. elko (W. H. Edwards, 1881)
C. t. elwesi (Davenport, 1941)
C. t. eryngii (Hy. Edwards, 1877)
C. t. eunomia (Dornfeld, 1967)
C. t. furcae (W. Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)
C. t. gliwa
C. t. haydenii (W. H. Edwards, 1872) – Hayden's Common Ringlet
C. t. inornata (W. H. Edwards, 1861) – Inornate Common Ringlet
C. t. insulanus (McDunnough, 1928) – Vancouver Ringlet
C. t. kodiak (Edwards 1869) – Kodiak Ringlet
C. t. mackenziei (D. Davenport, 1936) – Mackenzie's Ringlet
C. t. mcisaaci (dos Passos, 1935) – McIsaac's Ringlet
C. t. mixturata (Alphéraky, 1897)
C. t. mono (Burdick, 1942) – (Common) Ringlet
C. t. nipisiquit (McDunnough, 1939) – Maritime Ringlet
C. t. ochracea (W. H. Edwards, 1861) – Ochre (Common) Ringlet
C. t. polydama (Haworth, 1803)
C. t. pseudobrenda (Austin & R. Gray, 1998)
C. t. scotica (Staudinger, 1901)
C. t. sibirica (Davenport, 1941)
C. t. subfusca (W. Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)
C. t. suecica (Hemming, 1936)
C. t. tullia (Müller, 1764) – Common Ringlet
C. t. viluiensis (Ménétriés, 1859)
C. t. yontocket (Porter & Mattoon, 1989) – Yontocket Satyr Ringlet
C. t. yukonensis (W. Holland, 1900) – Yukon Common Ringlet

Nice website BTW, been on it a few times, have to bookmark it so I'll remember it.

[Padfield]

A little while back, Bob Parsons pointed us at http://www.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/efauna/index.shtml for the fauna (including all the butterflies) of British Columbia. I'm waiting for him to reply to your request for IDs before I launch in with my own...

Guy

[Vince Massimo]

Hi Martin,

I discovered your Australian website a few years ago and have only just realised that you are "Sooty". I have been meaning to log on and say how impressed I was with your photos. It is always gratifying to find an overseas site which has high quality images. If nothing else, it helps when getting through a northern hemisphere winter.

I'm afraid I cannot provide any information on you Canadian butterflies however.

Vince

[Sooty]

@ Chris - no way am I going to try to do the moths! It'll probably take me the rest of my life to get all the butterflies, and at some point I need to buy a cherrypicker so I can get pics of those species that stay up in the treetops.

@ Dave - one of the things I liked about going to Canada was the fact that I've now seen a few species over there that are also found in the UK, but which I never saw when I actually lived in the UK.

I wish the weather here would improve - we're getting an endless string of cloudy days with showers. I suppose it means all the foodplants will grow madly, which might mean a good butterfly season next time around.

[bob parsons alberta]

Hello, I am here! Will get to it.
It has been very cold here and I have been busy snow removal, never seen so much snow as has fallen this month.

[bob parsons alberta]

Hello, I am here! Will get to it.
It has been very cold here and I have been busy snow removal, never seen so much snow as has fallen this month.

Ok, this is the reference site I refer too all the time. A wonderful book too.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=tJpoXFZ ... &q&f=false

[Sooty]

I do have that book. But I'm still struggling to do the IDs. The frits and sulphurs all look much the same to me......