2018 March 24

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  Today, March 24, Kirsten Mills tells me that she saw her first Cabbage Whites, two of them, in Fisherman’s Wharf .

 

  Jeremy Tatum writes:   I still haven’t seen a butterfly, so I am reduced to photographing whatever turns up, such as the brown lacewing at my Saanich apartment this morning, shown below.  And while at Blenkinsop Lake, I saw (but alas I was sans camera) a magnificent large, black mottled mayfly – surely a little early in the year.  I assure you that it was not a March Fly!

 

Brown lacewing  (Neu.: Hemerobiidae)  Jeremy Tatum