2017 June 13

   Jeremy Gatten writes: I am not sure if Sphinx perelegans has bigger flight years on occasion, but it’s interesting seeing multiple reports locally.  I have been wanting to see one of these for a while now and I know their host plant is Orange Honeysuckle.  I have been looking at patches of Orange Honeysuckle and thinking "I should go out at night and check this spot".  Of course I never do, but now I don’t need to!  On my wall this morning was an impressive Elegant Sphinx waiting for me!

Sphinx perelegans (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Jeremy Gatten

   Occasionally it’s a bit difficult to be sure whether a tiger swallowtail is a Pale or a Western, but there is no doubt about this one photographed by Aziza Cooper on Mock Orange in Brentwood Bay, June 12. It is a no-questions Pale Tiger Swallowtail.

Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Aziza Cooper

   Ron Flower writes:  We went out to Eddy’s again today to try and get both sexes of Field Crescent, of which there were many to choose from.  My camera was set to a wrong focal point.  Too bad – so no pics today!  What was good, though, is that we checked out a field behind the Zanzibar Restaurant on the corner of West Saanich and Stelly’s Cross Road and immediately found more Field Crescents. All the same flowers also were there.