2015 May 10

   Bill Katz writes: I found a West Coast Lady, my first, flying lazily about the Cedar Hill Cross Road entrance of Finnerty Gardens on Sunday morning, May 10.  I photographed my first ever Red Admiral this afternoon in our garden at Spencer Castle on Summit Hill.

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Bill Katz

   Bill continues: I found a Eupithecia rotundopuncta,and the second moth shown below, in Haro Woods.  I also saw a faded Udea profundalis, my first of 2015.

Eupithecia rotundopuncta (Lep.: Geometridae) Bill Katz