2018 June 28

 

    Ann Nightingale sends a photograph of larvae of the Mountain Ash Sawfly, which are DEfoliating her Mountain Ash.  This is a European species, long established as an invader in eastern North America, and a recent invader in the west.

 

Mountain Ash Sawfly Pristiphora geniculata (Hym.: Tenthredinidae)  Ann NIghtingale

 

   Marie O’Shaughnessy sends photographs of three butterflies from Mount Tolmie, June 26.

 

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Lorquin’s Admiral  Limenitis lorquini  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

   Annie Pang sends a photograph of a Cabbage White  from Gorge Park.

 

Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae) Annie Pang

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Last night, June 27, I visited Cairn Hill in Highrock Park, Esquimalt, at 6:15 pm to see if there were any hilltopping nymphalids there.  There was just one – a Painted Lady.  However, it was rather windy at the time, and I think that that hill would be a good place to check more often for hilltoppers in less windy evenings.