2018 October 9

 

      Val George writes:   This caterpillar was at Panama Flats on Saturday, October 6.

 

Acronicta dactylina (Lep.: Noctuidae)   Val George

 

    Mark Wynja writes:  On Saturday October 6  I was birding from the logging roads in the High Country between Mount Arrowsmith and Mount Moriarty. In the morning when we first arrived, there was frost with a thin layer of ice on the ponds and puddles well below 1,000 metres elevation. In the early afternoon Guy Monty, David Baird and I saw two butterflies at an elevation of around 1,000 metres. The first flew past and appeared to be a Comma (species?). Later we encountered a Hydaspe Fritillary nectaring on Pearly Everlasting. 

 

Hydaspe Fritillary Speyeria hydaspe (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Mark Wynja

 

 

Hydaspe Fritillary Speyeria hydaspe (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Mark Wynja

 

   Bryan Gates writes:  This landed on me in the White Spot parking lot in Courtenay, Oct. 4. 2018.  Thanks to Libby Avis for the identification to genus.

 

Caddisfly Limnephilus sp. (Tri.: Limnephilidae)  Martin Gates

 

 

   Bryan Gates sends a photograph of Triphosa haesitata from Oak Bay, October 6.

 

Triphosa haesitata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Bryan Gates

 

   Nathan Fisk writes from Fort Rodd Hill:  Fly-by of medium sized, dominantly orange coloured butterfly this morning.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  Anyone like to guess?  California Tortoiseshell perhaps?   Keep looking!