2024 April 24 evening
Jeremy Tatum writes: I mentioned on the April 23 posting that a young lady, who was passing when I released the Ceanothus Silk Moth, took a photograph of it in more natural surroundings. I have added Talia’s photograph to the April 23 posting – viewers can scroll back to have a look at this spectacular moth.
Today, Aziza Cooper photographed a damselfly and an early-instar geometrid (but otherwise unidentified) caterpillar at Swan Lake:
Pacific Forktail Ischnura c...
2024 April 24 morning
On April 23, Gordon Hart saw at Panama Flats a Mourning Cloak, besides a Western Spring Azure and several Cabbage Whites.
Also on April 23, Marie O’Shaughnessy saw a California Tortoiseshell on Mount Tolmie, three Western Spring Azures in Outerbridge Park, six Western Spring Azures and two White-ribboned Carpet Moths along Munn Road past Francis/King Park.
California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy
Western Spring Azure ...