Identifying the Butterflies of Eastern New York, Part II: More True Butterflies & Skippers
Presenter: Rick Cech — author & photographer
Part I covered butterfly ID terminology, along with key features used for identifying a set of commonly confused species in Eastern New York (including swallowtails, pierids (whites and sulphurs), and basic lycaenids (blues & hairstreaks). This time the focus will be seasonal brood cycles, along with additional ID pointers, including elfins, common nymphalids, and skippers.
Bring: Your Eastern butterfly field guide—Rick will be happy to sign copies after the talk.
Who should attend: All levels welcome, from beginners to seasoned butterfliers.
About Rick
Rick Cech is an active field naturalist, trip leader, lecturer, author and photographer. Among other publications, he is the principal author and photographer of Butterflies of the East Coast: An Observer’s Guide (Princeton, 2005) and “A Distributional Checklist of the Butterflies and Skippers of the New York City Area.” He is a curatorial affiliate at Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in Entomology and a past president of the Linnaean Society of NY. Rick has taught nature photography and butterfly identification at the New York Botanical Gardens and Yale Graduate School Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology.
