2017 June 28

 

   Re the Cakile species on which are seen Cabbage White eggs on Jochen Moehr’s June 26 photographs, here’s what Nathan Fisk writes:  Seeing the leaves would help but this photo shows “silicles usually expanded at the joints into projecting wings” – ‎which would put this as C. maritima. It’d be good to see the leaves before I stake my reputation on that ID.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  Thank you, Nathan.  That’s good enough.  I suspect the butterfly isn’t very particular as to which species of Cakile she lays her eggs on.  Cabbage Whites choose a wide variety of Brassicaceae – not just our garden cabbages!

  

   Samantha Hatfield sends a photograph of a Western Tiger Swallowtail from the North Jubilee area.

 

Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Samantha Hatfield