2015 August 18

   Index.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I have been maintaining an Index of all photographs posted on this site since it became operational in 2010.  We had hoped to be able to post the Index on this site in a way that makes it easy to update, but we have not yet been able to find a technical solution.  Still trying.  In the meantime, if anyone would like to have a copy of it, please email me at jtatum at uvic.ca and just ask.

   Jeff Gaskin writes: Bill Dancer on Sherwood Drive tells me he still has 2 Western Tiger Swallowtails in his garden. The butterflies were seen there on Sunday August the 16th.  Sherwood Drive runs off of Arbutus Road and down the road from the Queen Alexandra Hospital.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  The last adult Western Tiger Swallowtail reported on this site before these two was on August 4.

   Annie Pang is finding in Gorge Park what many of us are finding in the Victoria area at the moment, namely that the only butterflies found locally are the Woodland Skippers and the odd Cabbage White.  She sends more evidence that the Woodland Skippers enjoy nectaring at lavender as well as at Asteraceae.

Woodland Skippers Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep. Hesperiidae)  Annie Pang

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep. Hesperiidae)  Annie Pang

  And now, an editorial blunder.  I had mixed up a couple of grasshopper photographs on August 8 and August 13.  The one on August 8, I think, is OK, and here is the one that should have appeared on August 13.  Apologies to the two photographers concerned.  I am still looking for someone who can and would be willing to identify grasshoppers for us.  Any volunteers, or suggestions?

Grasshopper (Orth.: Acrididae)  Rosemary Jorna