2015 August 22

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  A noctuid moth turned up at my apartment today for the first time in several weeks.  Thank you, Libby Avis, for identifying it as Xestia xanthographa.

Xestia xanthographa  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

    I had no difficulty in identifying 2 Painted Ladies and a Red Admiral  on the Mount Tolmie reservoir, and another Painted Lady near the Jeffery Pine, at 6:45 pm this evening.

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  I saw a Grey Hairstreak. It was a FOY [first of the year?] for me too. I saw it right by the Old Island Highway and Ocean Boulevard or right by the Western Exchange bus terminal. A very strange place for one to be.

  Val George writes:  After several attempts to see a Western Branded Skipper at Saanichton Spit (Cordova Spit), I finally managed to get one this afternoon, Aug 22.  Also there, were about a dozen Woodland Skippers.  At Island View Beach there were at least ten Ringlets (Large Heaths) (Coenonympha tullia).