2015 April 30

   Aziza Cooper writes:  I found the spider in my bedroom. I captured it and placed it on the roof outside my window.

   Robb Bennett kindly identified it for us as a female Phidippus johnsoni.  Robb writes:

The males are even more brightly coloured with the dorsal abdomen being completely scarlet.

 Phidippus johnsoni (Ara.: Salticidae)  Aziza Cooper

  Aziza continues:  The Red Admiral was along the trail to the West Summit of Mount Douglas yesterday (April 28). It was quite windy in the afternoon, and the butterfly was along the level paved trail before the second set of steps.

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Aziza Cooper

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  There was a Mourning Cloak on the Mount Tolmie reservoir this afternoon (April 30), and two more at UVic.