BIODIVERSITY
BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS
We keep discovering more butterflies and moths flitting through campus, and crawling along paths as caterpillars. They are as varied in color and design as their delightful names---duskywings, buckeyes, skippers, owlets and hairstreaks, to name a few. It's not easy to get a good photograph of a free-ranging butterfly, but our collection is gradually increasing!
Butterflies
Cabbage White
Common Buckeye
Mournful Duskywing
Echo Azure
Acmon Blue
Western Pygmy Blue
Sara Orangetip
Desert Orangetip
Fiery Skipper
Umber Skipper
Northern White Skipper
Western Tiger Swallowtail
Anise Swallowtail
Painted Lady
California Sister
Mylitta Crescent
Lorquin's Admiral
Mourning Cloak
Mountain Mahogany Hairstreak
Gray Hairstreak
Monarch
Dainty Sulphur
Cloudless Sulphur
White Checkered Skipper
Checkered White Butterfly
Moths
American Dun-bar Moth
Dwarf Tawny Wave
Inornate Pyrausta Moth
Light Brown Apple Moth
Straw Wave Moth
Western Tussock Moth
Owlet Moth
Geometer Moth
Emerald Moth
Polyphemus Moth
Black Witch Moth