2024 July 30

    We have only one item for today’s posting – the hairstreak below.  This was photographed by Aziza Cooper on June 20 at the railroad tracks at Goldstream campground.   The opinion of several experienced butterfly people is that this is Johnson’s Hairstreak – a most interesting record and a new locality for the species.

Johnson’s Hairstreak Callophrys johnsoni  (Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Aziza Cooper
The few previous records of this species on this site were listed under the name Loranthomitoura johnsoni.