2105 August 24

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Recently I posted pictures of two unidentified noctuids.  One of them on the August 21 posting  – a day-flying noctuid nectaring on Gordon Hart’s Buddleia.  The other on the August 22 posting – a brown noctuid resting on the wall of my apartment building.  I made two hopelessly wrong guesses at what they might have been.   Libby Avis to the rescue!   Libby has identified them for us, and I have now corrected the captions on these postings.  I’ll make you all work to see them by scrolling down to these two dates.  Thank you, Libby, and apologies, Gordon, for getting yours wrong.

  I saw a butterfly  today in the Swan Lake parking lot.  I think I managed to identify it correctly as a Lorquin’s Admiral.