2022 March 24

    Butterfly!  Since the brief run of butterfly sightings on March 5/6 it has been either cold, or windy, or raining, and we have received no further butterfly reports until today, when Jeff Gaskin reports  a Mourning Cloak near the Goldstream Park nature house this afternoon.

   And Val George reports another pug moth from his Oak Bay house today.  Jeremy Tatum writes: It’s probably Eupithecia ravocostaliata, although we have difficulty distinguishing this species from the similar E. nevadata.

 

Eupithecia ravocostaliata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George