2015 October 5

    Gordon Hart sends a picture of a rather unkempt-looking Yellow Woolly Bear from his Highlands yard.  It has since started to make a cocoon. He also sends a picture of one of two Cabbage Whites from Fort Rodd Hill.

Yellow Woolly Bear Spilosoma virginica (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Gordon Hart

Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)   Gordon Hart.

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Halfway down the east slope of Mount Tolmie there is a huge mass of flowering Ivy, in full bloom now.  You can smell it (a pleasant smell) from quite a way off.  I know that English Ivy is not everyone’s favorite plant, but the blossoms are attracting large numbers of interesting bees, wasps and flies; and today, at about 4:00 p.m., there were 2 Red Admirals there.  I stayed there for 40 minutes just watching them – I could barely tear myself away, they were so beautiful.