Monitoring Yuma Skippers at Sun Lakes-Dry Falls State Park July 15

Contact trip leader David James for more information
tl_DavidJ@wabutterflyassoc.org

If you like sunshine and heat and want to see one of Washingtons rarest butterflies, then maybe you will enjoy our Sun Lakes State Park (SLSP) WBA field trip next Tuesday July 15. Sun Lakes State Park (just south of Coulee City and ~20 miles north of Soap Lake) is the only WA home to the Yuma Skipper. Ten years ago, uninformed weed spraying nearly killed off all the Yuma Skippers at this location but fortunately a few survived. We now want to determine just how many Yuma Skippers still survive at SLSP, hence our field trip next week where we will count all the Yuma Skippers we see. Because of the heat (predicted high on Tuesday of 90 degrees), we plan to start our counts early and meet at SLSP at 9am although if you turned up late you would be able to find us