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Mariposa Ninfa (Polygonia satyrus)

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Marzo 17, 2024 a las 03:07 PM PDT

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My first butterfly of the year! Landed in this forest edge / opening I now call "The Butterfly Meadow", here in Lincoln Park, that I have been developing it as butterfly habitat, and habitat for locally lost, or locally rare plants, for about 6 years. This Satyr Comma / Anglewing failed to visit the patch of nettles I started for it, and for the 4 other Seattle butterflies that can lay eggs on it, but last year I did have one Satyr Comma, as well as one Red Admiral, lay eggs on the nettle patch! Today's Satyr Comma was right on time, as I usually see my first here just before the Spring eqinox.

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Febrero 25, 2024 a las 11:53 AM PST

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Hard to see, but some tiny teeth on the edge of these hairy leaves distinguish this species from related Madia species.

I've long wanted to get this species started both in Seattle again, as it was on my 1999 list of Seattle's lost ("extirpated") species, this one last recorded in Seattle by the herbaria in 1889 (Alki Point), or 1892 (location not clear) and the flower looked beautiful. I moved these 2 plants to Lincoln Park from the South Puget Sound area a few months ago, and chose a promising mossy forest edge for them, and they were both looking great, until a presumed Eastern Cottontail rabbit chewed one down to the top of the root, but the smaller rosette is what grew back after the Leporine (rabbit caused) setback! I tried the species in the park once before, and that plant didn't get far before dying, but I'm optimistic with these 2!

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Febrero 25, 2024 a las 11:48 AM PST

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This is the same colony that I made an iNaturalist observation with in 2022 (more of its story in the linked observation) It is "wild" by iNaturalist's definition of self-seeded being "wild", but I started the colony with a few plants plants about 5 years ago, and by my definition, each generation, that a species is self seeded after it was planted in a location, the population there is a little more "wild" and "natural". So this colony is now about 5 generations more "wild" and "natural" than the few plants I started it with about 5 years ago.

This season I had a small handful of seedlings that germinated not long after the Fall rains came, and they all died with the 2 days of 15 degree weather. After the big crop I had the previous year, I was very disappointed! Then, maybe a week ago or so, I saw thousands of tiny cotyledons germinating where that colony was! I was optimistic they were a later germination of Collomia heterophylla! Then yesterday I noticed, on a seedling or two that I examined, the wrinkled surface that I've come to recognize as that of Collomia heterophylla cotyledons! (much like the cotyledons of Collomia grandiflora, but their true leaves are radically different.)

I now hope that a few other spots in the park, where I had Fall sprouted Collomia heterophyllas die, will show similar recoveries.

It seems like this species hedges its bets with early and later germination times for their seeds. Those that germinate with the Fall rains might be bigger than those that germinate later, but having others germinate after the peak cold of the winter allow the population to continue even if all of the Fall germinating plants die in the colder weather!

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Febrero 25, 2024 a las 11:35 AM PST

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While I planted the mother of this seedling of this annual species with a wild Puget Trough plant from a spot where they were abundant, this seedling was self-seeded, and therefore "wild" by the iNaturalist definition.

This is a species that is doesn't occur in most Seattle parks, but is common in at least one or two of them. I had never seen Nemophila parviflora growing wild in Lincoln Park since I moved to West Seattle in 2000, and started carefully observing all of the plant species here, but long thought it had appropriate habitat there, that it "belonged" there, and was a "missing native species" there. I tried starting a number of them in the park multiple times, but I don't know that any previous plants that I moved into the park survived to successfully produce seeds, that then germinated. I was very pleased that this one germinated where the mother produced a seed or two before dying, as all annual plants do! Also, while some nasty beast, possibly a slug, chewed away most of one cotyledon, the other one is still healthy, and the new true leaves are starting off looking great!

I am hopeful that this plant that started from seed on its own, in this spot, is more likely to grow up and make seeds that can start a new population here, where I long thought this species should be, but hadn't found it. This would add one more species to the biodiversity of Lincoln Park, a species that seems appropriate to me for this park and its habitat, and a species that I expect had occurred, at some point historically, within the current bounds of "Lincoln Park". I hope to plant some more Nemophila parviflora near it, in hopes that there will be cross-pollination with this plant. I looked for more about a week ago in another park that previously had many of them, and found none. I am hoping mine was germinating earlier than the ones I failed to find in that other park.

There is another observation of Nemophila parviflora in Lincoln that I'm not sure was one that I planted, and might somehow have been a wild plant there that escaped my notice, though I have been observing the plants in the park almost every day for 24 years.

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Febrero 25, 2024 a las 11:31 AM PST

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This is a species with a spotty distribution in Seattle (and it is rare in SW BC, its range barely crossing north into Canada), and one I never observed before in Lincoln Park in my 24 years of spending time there almost every day. I long thought it had appropriate habitat there, and "belonged" there. It was what I have called a "missing native species" from the location in question.

While looking for Nemophila parviflora in a nearby park where I had previously seen a lot of Nemophila (but finding none that day), I found a couple of large patches of Hydrophyllum tenuipes - Pacific Waterleaf with plants in both spots growing into the trail, where they were being trampled by both the introduced Homo sapiens and their introduced Canis familiaris.

I moved a couple out of the edge of the trail, to a beautiful mossy spot in Lincoln Park, that had just had Trailing Blackberry - Rubus ursinus removed, where I both hope these Pacific Waterleaf plants will have a better chance of survival, and where I hope they will have a chance of starting a new population of this "missing native species". Some days after transplanting they are already looking great, and one leaf, that I thought I might have broken, was also again looking great!

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Diciembre 3, 2023 a las 02:20 PM PST

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Found on the edge of a gravelly trail, that to me didn't look very inviting for fungus growth, but there were certainly roots of plants in the soil under that gravelly path, so if these are mycorrhizal, they probably had something to grow from.

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Hierba Carnicera (Erigeron canadensis)

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Noviembre 20, 2023 a las 02:35 PM PST

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An underloved plant in the site of a down town demolition needed to be observed

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Noviembre 11, 2023 a las 01:59 PM PST

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Octubre 17, 2023 a las 01:14 PM PDT

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Octubre 5, 2023 a las 02:29 PM PDT

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Octubre 4, 2023 a las 02:44 PM PDT

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Septiembre 19, 2023 a las 01:40 PM PDT

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Light stripes on the thorax

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Mariposa Blanca de la Col (Pieris rapae)

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Septiembre 19, 2023 a las 01:23 PM PDT

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I'm continuing to see more Cabbage Whites in this latest generation than I had maybe 3 to 6 or 7 weeks ago, which I presume was a gap between generations.

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Septiembre 17, 2023 a las 06:19 PM PDT

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Growing in the cracks of the urban curb. While I usually want to remove non-native species from around me, I decided I liked this introduced Cinquefoil more than the average non-native plant growing in the cracks of our urban pavement, and that the likelihood of it sending its offspring to a natural area were relatively low.

When I made this post I was thinking of @gordonhogenson , a defender of "naturalized citizen plants".

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Rábano de Mar (Cakile maritima)

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Septiembre 9, 2023 a las 02:10 PM PDT

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The one nectar plant I am finding for the two butterfly species I am still finding flying here, that is the Cabbage White and the Woodland Skipper. As I recited this to my voice recognition I was pleased to have a cabbage white hopping from flower to flower around my feet!

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Septiembre 9, 2023 a las 01:41 PM PDT

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I finally found two woodland skippers on the beach after a long search in the park. One or both have been nectaring on Cakile maritima - European Sea-rocket between driftwood logs on the beach, and ignoring the blooming Grindelia there. We're evidently headed towards the end of the flight season, taking longer to find one, and they're harder to find. The butterflies are now looking fairly worn.

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Rayadora Abigarrada (Sympetrum corruptum)

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Septiembre 9, 2023 a las 01:52 PM PDT

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Mariposa Blanca de la Col (Pieris rapae)

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Septiembre 9, 2023 a las 12:55 PM PDT

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I’ve been seeing a few extra cabbage whites in the last week or so. I might have seen 8 in a half an hour walk down the beach today. For other butterflies, I am now having a hard time even finding Woodland skippers.

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Agosto 22, 2023 a las 01:53 PM PDT

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This observation is for the female, but we also see the male with her. They were interacting, and I was guessing it would be a prelude to mating, but I didn't stay to see any mating.

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Agosto 21, 2023 a las 03:12 PM PDT

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Agosto 21, 2023 a las 02:47 PM PDT

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Agosto 18, 2023 a las 04:06 PM PDT

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Perched on the flower head of Sweet Vernal Grass- Anthoxanthum odoratum

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Agosto 16, 2023 a las 02:54 PM PDT

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This, or another Woodland Skipper, at about the same place, maybe 5 minutes earlier, laid an egg on a grass blade. With no flower head on the stalk with the blade, I'm not sure of the grass species, but the blade was maybe 4 - 5 mm wide, and adjacent flower heads were Agrostis species. They were stolonous or rhizomatous. My first guess would be Agrostis stolonifera, that would have blades 3 - 6 mm wide.

I've been aiming to get my 3rd Woodland Skipper observation this year here for maybe 14 days now. I am estimating that I am seeing fewer Woodland Skippers in Lincoln Park this year than most years. While we might not yet quite be at peak flight time here for the year, for this species, I have thought of the species as ubiquitous here in mid-August, and so far this season I am looking longer, and harder, to find one, than would have expected on an average year. It seems that other years in mid-August I could see one or more any moment I search decent, grassy, sunny edge habitat, and this year, I might search a half an hour, or more, before seeing one here (though a second one will often show up with the first).

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Cáñamo Americano (Apocynum androsaemifolium)

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Agosto 14, 2023 a las 05:21 PM PDT

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The only Spreading Dogbane - Apocynum androsaemifolium patch I know of within Seattle. Currently growing on the unmown slope in front of 4839 and 4843 41st Ave SW, and in the rockery in front of 4843 41st SW. I discovered this patch here (2 blocks from my apartment) about 2001, originally in the vacant lot to the south of these houses, where I no longer find it. The area is dominated by an Agrostis / Bentgrass species, and has a fair bit of Lathyrus latifolius - Perennial Pea (among other English names). It all looks fairly dry by local standards, and there is no shade.

While this species is usually a top butterfly attractor, I've never seen a butterfly on one of its flowers, even as I watched our common Cabbage Whites, and Woodland Skippers fly by, some stopping to nectar on the Perennial Pea.

I've never seen a seed pod either, so at first I thought the species might be dioecious, and we have only one sex, but then realized this species just may not be self fertile, and expect the whole patch is one rhizomatous clone. Checking 4 flowers a moment ago, I see no stamens, though I then noticed that the stamens of this species may be obscured, compared to stamens on most dicots.

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Agosto 2, 2023 a las 02:27 PM PDT

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It was ovipositing on dry Hordeum murinum - Wall Barley leaves.

It’s the first day I’ve seen them this year in Lincoln Park. Saw 2 here today.

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Julio 30, 2023 a las 01:37 PM PDT

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This opening in the forest has been my most reliable in this park for seeing western tiger swallowtails. As I approached, I was expecting to see one and I did!

The 2 Western Tigers there even gave me 3 tries. The first one landed within reach for what could have been an easy shot, but flew when I moved my hand to focus. It then landed low again for what might again have been an easy shot, but again flew as I moved my hand. Then before leaving the not too big opening, a second one landed low, and I made sure to be a bit more slow, to get the shot. A reliable spot for the butterflies, and cooperative butterflies for their picture!

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Julio 25, 2023 a las 02:17 PM PDT

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First day this year I've seen this species in Seattle. Saw 3 - 4 today at a public vegetable garden "Pea Patch" near Lincoln Park. This one nectaring on Lavender.

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Mariposa Azul Mexicana (Celastrina echo)

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Julio 22, 2023 a las 01:07 PM PDT

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Nectaring on Common Snowberry. I’ve been trying to get an observation of an Echo Azure in Lincoln Park, since seeing my first second generation Echo Azure here on July 1. This is the first one in three weeks that offered me a good view where I could get a good picture!

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Julio 21, 2023 a las 12:29 PM PDT

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4 feet up a on dead Douglas-fir trunk. I am not quite sure of the species. I may need a review.

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Mariposa Almirante del Oeste (Limenitis lorquini)

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Julio 14, 2023 a las 11:19 AM PDT

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