2015 August 6

   Val George writes:  This morning, August 6, I had two of these Lesser Yellow Underwings in my carport in Oak Bay. 

Lesser Yellow Underwing Noctua comes (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Val George

   Devon Parker writes:  I was up on the San Juan Ridge today and it was a terrible day for butterflies, although I got to identify the fritillaries [see August 3 posting]  as the Hydaspe Fritillary. They have a few extra black spots on the ventral hindwing compared with zerene when I compared pinned specimens of the two.

San Juan Ridge:
1 skipper
2 Hydaspe Fritillaries

South of the San Juan Ridge is the Jordan Ridge. There were 2 Grey Hairstreaks there. At a lower elevation on the Jordan Ridge there was one skipper.