2024 March 19
2024 March 19
Spring starts at 10:06 pm PDT this evening.
Aziza photographed this Mourning Cloak on the Mount Tolmie reservoir on March 18.
Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa (Lep. Nymphalidae) Aziza Cooper
Aziza writes: Today, March 19, I saw three Mourning Cloaks – one along the Colquitz Creek path near Marigold Street, one flushed from Conway Road near Interurban Road, and one at the Beaver Lake Riding Ring trails (photograph of this one below). Two California Tortoiseshells were still on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 5:30 pm.
Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa (Lep. Nymphalidae) Aziza Cooper
Here are more of Ian Cooper’s photographs from this morning at *Colquitz River Park and the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.
* Young Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae) Ian Cooper
* Adult Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae) Ian Cooper
# Eratigena (probably duellica) (Ara: Agelenidae) Ian Cooper
# Linyphiid spider, probably Neriene sp. (Ara.: Linyphiidae) Ian Cooper
*Cross Orb-weaver Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae) Ian Cooper
* European Sowbug Oniscus asellus (Isopoda: Oniscidae) Ian Cooper