Carolyn,

I have no idea why you might not have seen them, but there are Woodland Skippers in my yard in Seattle every sunny day. And I?ve been traveling here and there in the PNW in the last month, and as far as I can tell, they are abundant everywhere, the only butterfly at some places I have visited. I hope that reassures you that the species is not imperiled.

Dennis Paulson
Seattle

On Sep 5, 2016, at 12:00 PM, tweeters-request at mailman1.u.washington.edu wrote:

> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 05:27:01 -0700
> From: Carolyn Finder Heberlein <cf47 at uw.edu>
> Subject: [Tweeters] Woodland Skippers
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> There are 3 butterflies that I always see in my garden in Seattle: Cabbage
> Whites, Tiger Swallowtails, and Woodland Skippers. This year, I have not
> seen even one Woodland Skipper.