2023 August 5 evening

 From Gordon Hart:

Hello, Butterfly Watchers,

This is a reminder for the VNHS Butterfly Walk on Sunday, August 6.

We will meet at the Mount Tolmie summit by the reservoir, at 1.00 p.m. You can park in the parking lot there, or in the large lot north of the summit. After a look around the summit, we will decide on a destination from there.

You can review Vancouver Island butterflies at Val George’s website : https://vancouverislandbutterflies.com/

See you on Sunday,
Gordon Hart
Butterfly count coordinator
Victoria Natural History Society

   Marie O’Shaughnessy writes: I was in Outerbridge Park yesterday Friday Aug 4th between  12:30 and 2:00 pm and I saw two very worn Lorquin’s Admirals,  three Cabbage White butterflies and seven Woodland Skippers.  I also saw two Blue Dashers, two Paddle-tailed Darners and a Striped Meadowhawk.

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

  Striped Meadowhawk  Sympetrum pallipes  (Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy

Val George writes:  These two moths (Cyclophora dataria and Macaria signaria) were on the walls of my Oak Bay house this morning, August 5.

Cyclophora dataria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George)

Macaria signaria  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George)