2015 August 29

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I was evidently not paying attention on August 18 when we received an email from Aziza Cooper with two photographs of splendid butterflies.   ‘Pologies, Aziza, for missing them.  Here they are – a Purplish Copper from the Martindale Valley, and a Pine White near the Lochside Drive pig farm, both on August 17.

Female Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides (Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Aziza Cooper

Male Pine White Neophasia menapia (Lep.: Pieridae) Aziza Cooper

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here are two moths from the walls of my Saanich apartment building this morning, August 29.

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

Udea profundalis (Lep.: Crambidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   And this evening, just when I was preparing dinner, I found a splendid noctuid caterpillar on my store-bought broccoli.  A very nice find.  I don’t know what it is – I’ll have to wait until next spring to find out.

Unknown caterpillar on broccoli  (Lep.: Noctuidae)   Jeremy Tatum