2024 April 17
Jeremy Tatum writes: There was a California Tortoiseshell on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 5:00 pm today. It was a different individual from the one photographed there recently by Marie and by Aziza. This was the only butterfly reported to Invert Alert today. I visited Swan Lake today, and Lochside Drive at Blenkinsop Lake yesterday, without seeing any butterflies. It is still appropriate for observers to report any butterfly sightings, even if just singletons of common ...
2024 April 16
Our plea for sightings of Moss’s Elfin led to a quick response from Aziza Cooper, who draws our attention to an item on iNaturalist of a Moss’s Elfin at Lone Tree Hill on April 10. Rebecca Reader-Lee is the observer. The link, showing a photograph, is https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/207460416
Jeff Gaskin reports that today, April 16, at Panama Flats there was a Western Spring Azure and a Mourning Cloak.
Marie O’Shaughnessy reports three Sara Orangetips from Mount Dou...