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Some Special Publications

bulletInsects of the Los Angeles Basin by C. Hogue
bulletWild Heart of Los Angeles: The Santa Monica Mountains by Margaret Huffman (Won Sierra Club Angeles Chapter's highest award for nature interpretation !)
bulletButterflies of Greater Los Angeles by Rudy Mattoni
bulletSearching for Butterflies in Southern California by Wanda Dameron
bulletThe Butterflies of Southern California by T. Emmel and J. Emmel
bulletAn Introduction to Southern California Butterflies by Fred Heath and photography by Herbert Clarke
bulletButterflies & Their Favorite Flowering Plants: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park & Environs by Lynn & Gene Monroe
bulletNational Audubon Society: Field Guide to California by Peter Alden and Fred Heath
bulletCalifornia Butterflies by J. Garth and J. Tilden
bulletCalifornia Insects by Jerry A. Powell and Charles L. Hogue
bulletCommon Butterflies of California by Bob Stewart
bulletButterflies through Binoculars: The West by Jeffrey Glassberg
bulletPeterson Guide:  A Field Guide to Western Butterflies by P. Opler and A. Wright
bulletButterflies of North America by Jim  P. Brock and Kenn Kaufman
bulletThe Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies by Robert Pyle
bulletThe Butterflies of North America by J. Scott
bulletButterfly Gardening by Thomas C. Emmel

  Related Web Sites

bulletButterflies of North America
bulletNorth American Butterfly Association
bulletThe Natural History of the San Gabriel Mountains
bulletButterflies and their Larval Food Plants
bulletLos Angeles Natural History Museum/Entomology Department
bulletSE Arizona butterflies
bullet Images of Butterflies of San Diego County
bullet NABA-Southeast Arizona Butterfly Association
bullet NABA-Orange County
bulletEnvironmental Education and Research at the Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University

Reporting and Sharing Butterfly Information

bulletButterfly sightings to NABA, new and/or unusual: sightings@naba.org
bulletLeps-L leps-l@lists.yale.edu to add and receive postings on butterfly-related topics. To subscribe, send e-mail to list proc@lists.yale.edu then  in   message area enter:      Subscribe Leps-L  your name
bulletNABA-CHAT - To subscribe, go to www.naba.org , click on NABA-CHAT and follow directions
bulletSouthwest Lepline - for discussion of butterflies occurring in Southern California, Arizona, Baja California and Sonora, Mexico.  URL is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sowestlep/join
bulletTX-Butterflies - The server is the University of Houston @ http://listserv.uh.edu/archives/tx-butterfly.html for the discussion of butterflies and moths
bulletNABA  Sightings Data Base
bulletRecords & Reports for S.W. US: Ken Davenport flutterflies@juno.com
bulletRecords for State & County, new hostplants, early and late flights (list available upon request), unusual migrants, & rarely recorded species and range extensions. They are published in the Lepidopterists' Society spring issue. Membership $45 nor required for submissions. - Treas. Kelly Richers, kerichers@wasco.k12.ca.us; 661-665-1993, 9417 Carvalho Ct., Bakersfield 93311.

  Butterfly Lists

bulletSee the web site of the USGS: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center for 
     Butterflies of Los Angeles and Butterflies of California 
bulletVisit this "Red List" site for a  List of U.S. Endangered/Protected Species   
bulletVisit this NABA Site for a List of English Butterfly Names for North America

Butterfly-related Purchases

bulletBioquip Products - 2321 Gladwick Street, Rancho Dominguez 90220 -  310-324-0620; fax: 310-324-7931; e-mail: bioquip@aol.com
bulletFlutterby Press  - 818-340-0365 or be496@lafn.org  for information - "Where to Find Butterflies in Southern California" (includes 25 areas +foodplant section), various distribution, illustration and checklists plus "user-friendly" materials of current common and scientific names for the U.S., Thailand and the Neotropics. 
bulletLos Angeles Audubon Society - 7737 Santa Monica Blvd.. West Hollywood 90046-6694 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday 213-876-0202; fax: 213-876-7609; e-mail: laas@ix.netcom.com
bulletNABA'S Online Store - www.butterflybuzz.com - Apparel, books, art, garden, jewelry, publications, etc.
bulletSanta Barbara Software Products @ 805-963-4886   e-mail:   SBSP@aol.com

Local Endangered Butterflies

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Palos Verdes Blue  (description)
Palos Verdes Blue Habitat Restoration
in San Pedro, CA, 9 to Noon at the Defense Fuel Support Point - 3171 N. Gaffey - on first or second Sundays.  Please call Jess Morton @ (310) 832-5601 for necessary information.

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El Segundo Blue  (description)
El Segundo Blue Habitat Restoration information at http://dune-prairie.org/ .

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Quino Checkerspot   (description)

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