Field Crescent
Phyciodes pulchellus
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A field crescent collecting salts off my binocular straps at the Shorthorn Trail #9 trailhead at Morrison Creek Camp, Gifford Pinchot National Forest.......July 7, 2021.
The photo above shows the upperwing pattern
of a field crescent as seen just above Island Springs or on the lower slopes
of Little Mt. Adams to the east of Mt. Adams........August 12, 2006.
This individual evidently landed upon the pumice slope to await the passage
of a large cloud which briefly cooled the surroundings.
The photo above shows the underwing pattern
of a field crescent as seen just above Island Springs or on the lower slopes
of Little Mt. Adams to the east of Mt. Adams.........August 12, 2006.
This is the same individual seen in the photo above.
The photo above shows a field crescent on
heart-leaved buckwheat (Eriogonum compositum) seen along the Island Springs
Trail #66........July 17, 2006.
The photo above shows the underside of the wings of a field crescent
(left) and snowberry checkerspot (right) on heart-leaved buckwheat (Eriogonum
compositum) seen along the Island Springs Trail #66........July
17, 2006.
The photo above shows a male field crescent mudding in a riparian area along Road K1000 to the east of the Mt. Adams Highway.........July 2, 2007.
The photo above shows a tattered field crescent resting upon
squirreltail bottlebrush (Elymus elymoides - formerly Sitanion hystrix) as
seen at Crooked Falls in Bird Creek Meadows, Mt. Adams.......August
13, 2006.
The photo above shows a field crescent as seen in wetlands along Roak K1000 to the east of the Mt. Adams Highway at the eastern foot of Mt. Adams......June 17, 2007.
The photo above shows a field crescent on meadow hawkweed (Hieracium caespitosum) in wetlands along Roak K1000 to the east of the Mt. Adams Highway at the eastern foot of Mt. Adams........June 17, 2007.
Paul Slichter