May 13 morning

 

 

Aziza Cooper writes:  Yesterday, May 12, Moralea and I went to look for butterflies up the logging roads west of Jordan River. We had a brief view of a brown hairstreak in a willow, but could not positively identify it as Johnson’s. There were many commas (at least 30). Also there were one Mylitta Crescent, a Mourning Cloak, a Western Spring Azure, a Western Brown Elfin and a Two-banded Checkered (Grizzled) Skipper.

It was also lovely to see Avalanche Lily and Bog Laurel.

Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Aziza Cooper

Hoary (“Zephyr”) Comma Polygonia gracilis zephyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Aziza Cooper

Hoary (“Zephyr”) Comma Polygonia gracilis zephyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Aziza Cooper

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  The back door of my apartment building in Saanich at one time attracted a nice variety of moths.  Nowadays I rarely see anything but the occasional pug, which I despair to identify.

Unidentified pug Eupithecia sp. (Lep. Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum