2021 September 3
2021 September 3
Monthly Butterfly Walk scheduled for Sunday is cancelled. See notice on September 2 Alert.
Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of a Woodland Skipper in Metchosin nectaring on a — Wanted! – a Botanist to tell us what it is nectaring on!
Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Jochen Möhr
Jochen had these moths at his Metchosin home this morning
1 Neoalcis californiaria
2 Nepytia phantasmaria
3 Noctua pronuba
1 Orgyia antiqua
1 Xanthorhoe defensaria
Here are photographs of a few of them:
Nepytia phantasmaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
Orgyia antiqua (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae) Jochen Möhr
Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr
Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
As a welcome bonus, Jochen writes: This morning a very docile and tolerant Mourning Cloak had taken seat on my chair to sun itself. I am grateful.
Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jochen Möhr
Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jochen Möhr
Jeremy Tatum photographed some moths at the Goldstream Park Nature House this morning.
Nepytia phantasmaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jeremy Tatum
Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jeremy Tatum
Caripeta aequaliaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jeremy Tatum
Jeremy also writes: Also at the Nature House was what I think is the largest caddisfly I have ever seen – out of camera range, unfortunately. Possibly Dicosmoecus atripes.
Gordon Hart writes: I dropped by Swan Lake yesterday and saw a Lorquin’s Admiral near Tuesday Pond – likely the same one Jeff saw. There was one Woodland Skipper on Gumweed and several bee species.
Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Gordon Hart
Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Gordon Hart