2017 April 16

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I visited Bear Hill today, and I saw just one butterfly, but a welcome one.  A Western Brown Elfin – my fourth individual butterfly of the year, and my first non-Cabbage.  Also on the hill, two Epirrhoe plebeculata, and at the bottom of the hill, among a large growth of brambles, a cloud of many Mesoleuca gratulata.  Gordon Hart had a look in Francis/King Park, and also saw lots of Mesoleuca gratulata and a few Epirrhoe plebeculata, but no butterflies, and Ben van Drimmelen saw no butterflies at Anderson Park.  Remember, all, I want to know what Epirrhoe plebeculata lays its eggs on!

 

  Devon Parker found one Western Spring Azure in Uplands Park and one Cabbage White on Denison Road.   Annie Pang saw her first Western Brown Elfin and a few Cabbage Whites at Gorge Park.

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Devon Parker

 

 

   Annie Pang photographed a male mining bee Andrena sp. at Gorge Park Community Gardens.

 

Andrena sp. (Hym.: Andrenidae)  Annie Pang