Spotted at Rancho San Vicente: Bay Checkerspot Butterfly

May 26, 2010 at 11:32 am · Filed under Almaden Valley, Bay Checkerspot Butterfly, Land Protection, Rancho San Vicente, South Bay, Wildflowers

By Gordon Clark, Conservation Project Manager

To quote expert Stu Weiss, “Any day you see a Bay checkerspot butterfly is a pretty fine day.” Stu Weiss is a serpentine grassland scientist with Creekside Center for Earth Observation, and he, along with his colleague Christal Niederer, Ben Solvesky and Mike Thomas of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Chris Wilmers, a mountain lion expert at UC-Santa Cruz, Jon Christensen of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford and fellow POSTies Marc Landgraf and Sky Bintliff had the great fortune of spotting a Bay Checkerspot male, freshly emerged. Here are some photos from their butterfly safari:

Bay Checkerspot Butterfly (c) Stu Weiss

The group at the summit (c) POST

Have you had the good fortune to spot endangered or threatened critters? If so, tell us about it! You can read more about the Bay Checkerspot Butterfly here.

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