2016 August 4

 

Monthly Butterfly Walk

All Welcome!

 

Gordon Hart writes:

The monthly butterfly walk will be this Sunday, August 7.  We will meet at Mount Tolmie at 1 p.m. at the main parking lot below the summit on the north side and decide where to go from there.  The trip is weather-dependent, so if it is too cool and cloudy or rainy, we will probably have to look for birds instead!  I was thinking perhaps Island View Beach and Cordova Spit might be good.  There’s a chance of Purplish Copper, Anise Swallowtail, Large Heath (“Ringlet”) and the rare Western Branded Skipper.

 

  

Jeremy Tatum writes:  Not many moths recently, but, in several places I have seen the big silken nests of the Fall Webworm Hyphantria cunea (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae).  Also, if you see a smallish dark reddish-brown moth flying rapidly around in a corkscrew-like fashion, which you first think might be a skipper, though its flight doesn’t look quite right, you are probably seeing a male Vapourer Moth Orgyia antiqua (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)