2017 August 16

 

   Aziza Cooper writes:  Yesterday, August 15, around McIntyre Reservoir I saw:

 

Sulphur – one seen in flight, no photo

Cabbage White – 20 or more

Painted Lady – 4. Three were worn and one fresh.

Anise Swallowtail – 1

Woodland Skipper – 1

 

 

  Mike Yip writes, from Nanoose Bay:  A Common Woodnymph stopped briefly in my garden this morning. Lucky I had my telephoto lens or I wouldn’t have gotten a shot. Also saw a couple of Cabbage Whites, 1 Pine White, and about 15 Woodland Skippers enjoying the patch of catoni asters.

 

Common Woodnymph  Cercyonis pegala (Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae)  Mike Yip

 

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Mike Yip

 

 

    Jeremy Tatum writes:  The Red Admiral, whose caterpillar was shown on July 31 and whose chrysalis was shown on August 7, emerged from its chrysalis today.  A freshly emerged Red Admiral a foot in front of one’s eyes is a creature of indescribable beauty.  Unfortunately it was too active to allow a photograph, and I released it on a Buddleia bush in UVic’s Finnerty Gardens.