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Matelea chihuahuensis, Animas Valley on the northwest side of the Animas Mountains, southwest of Whitmire Pass, 31.756 -108.737, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, 2 Aug 2015.

Same population: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/154228794

Love these guys! So photogenic.

Fen M36 Kelly Rd (behind old Keiser farm).

Location and date inaccurate - observed in Nuña Co., TX (nuña business), in 2022. This is a re-upload of a previous observation.

Big Bend National Park, Pinnacles Trail

Big Bend National Park, Pinnacles Trail

Big Bend National Park, Pinnacles Trail

Cave Myotis pair
Hwy drainage tunnel

Will get better pictures later. Growing in the gutter spout next to my apartment

Previous entry but now in bloom

Falcon State Park

Flushed two males, or the same one twice.

Bentsen's milkvine. Falfurius milkvine. Matelea radiata. Dos Venadas Ranch. Starr County, Texas.

The flowers smell divine.

First plant probably the same that @milkweedguy found in 2013. Second plant about 50 feet away.

Thanks to elizabethrgv for posting the location.

At the entrance to the Maple Canyon service road.

On the way back from the Indian Creek Ranch gathering, I did some blacklighting around the north entrance of San Angelo State Park -- dry, hot, and windy, but lots of bugs still came! :)

Terri Siegenthaler and Carol Todzia found this single specimen last month in Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve.

Lake Corpus Christi State Park

No Emory’s milkweed was seen flowering, & quite a few had yellowing leaves

This is now classified in the genus Carboniclava. iNat is slow to recognize the change.

Many Eris militaris and Bagheera prosper adults on the concrete tables at Emma Long Park. ~25C warm day in late February

Falcon State Park

Falcon State Park

Grapevine Hills Trail, Big Bend National Park