Sooty Hairstreak, Emerging from Pupa - Satyrium fuliginosum semiluna
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IMMATURES and HABITAT        ADULT       SPECIMEN
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Just After Emerging from the pupa
just emerged from pupa

Just After Emerging from the pupa
just after emerging

Inflating Wings
Inflating wings

Inflating Wings
inflating wings

Inflating Wings
inflating wings

Inflating Wings
inflating wings

Drying Wings
drying wings


PHOTO DETAILS - ©Nicky Davis
Guides to this location were Jack Harry and Jacque Wolfe
DATE LARVAE AND PUPAE WERE LOCATED:  June 18, 2009
LOCATION: 1/2  mile north of Coltan Guard Station, Uintah County, Utah
GPS: N. 40.40.542, W. 109.30.949
ELEVATION: 8482 feet

PHOTOS:
Female Adult emerging from pupa

LARVAL HOST PLANT:  Lupine

TIME SPENT AS:
Ova:  unknown
Pupae:  8 days
Brood or  Flight: one each year 
per  James A. Scott "The Butterflies of North America"
Hibernation:  Overwinter as egg  per  James A. Scott "The Butterflies of North America"
Host  Lupinus sericeus

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