2018 June 30

 

Gordon Hart writes:

 

Hello Butterfly Watchers,

This is a reminder that the monthly VNHS Butterfly Walk will be on Sunday July 1, Canada Day! We will meet at the summit of Mount Tolmie by the reservoir at 1 p.m.  I was thinking of a trip to Island View Beach for Purplish Coppers and whatever else might be around, but we can decide at the time.  The weather is supposed to be sunny, so hope to see you Sunday,

-Gordon

 

 

   Jochen Möhr writes:  June is practically over, and I have not seen or seen mentioned any June Beetles Polyphylla sp.   Are they gone?  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I looked up in the Invert Alert Index, and I see that we have six photographs of the adult sog. June Beetle. Only one of them is in June (June 25); the remainder are in July (latest is July 28).  So there is hope yet.   Claudia Copley tells me that our species is best referred to as Polyphylla crinita.

 

 

   Aziza Cooper sends an interesting photograph of the pale forma pallida of the Essex Skipper from Cattle Point.  Jeremy Tatum writes:   We see these from time to time – maybe I see about one a year, not more.  I’ve written to David Harris to see if he sees them in Sussex.  It’s not a subspecies – it’s just a “form”.  I suppose someone has worked out the genetics of it, though I don’t know.

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola f. “pallida” (Lep.: Hesperiidae)   Aziza Cooper