2020 May 22 morning

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  There are quite a few caterpillars of Satyr Comma along Lochside Drive north of Blenkinsop Lake.  I hope this is a sign that the numbers of these butterflies are coming back after a few lean years.  One just hopes that Saanich will not cut or spray the verges.

 

Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jeremy Tatum

    Jeff Gaskin writes:  Yesterday morning,  May 21,  I found 32 Ringlets in their usual location, Layritz Park.

 

Rosemary Jorna writes:  We were back on the Whiffin Spit today.  We saw one  Seven-spotted Lady Beetle  but the real surprise was two live Pacific Sideband Snails and one empty shell in different  locations.   I associate these snails with the forest,  but these three were under the vegetation well into the gravelly, grassy harbour side  of the trail. This is a harsh exposed environment.  The second live snail was much smaller,  and it was raining too hard to photograph.

Coccinella septempunctata (Col.: Coccinellidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Monadenia fidelis (Pul.: Bradybaenidae) Rosemary Jorna

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin yesterday and today:

 

May 21

1 Egira rubrica

2 Eupithecia spp.

1 Eupithecia cretaceata

1 Melanolophia imitata

3 Tyria jacobaeae

1 Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria

 

May 22

1 Apamea cinefacta

1 Coryphista meadii

1 Eupithecia sp.

1 Lacinipolia cuneata/pensilis

1 Melanolophia imitata

4 Tyria jacobaeae

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria

 

Lacinipolia cuneata/pensilis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Apamea cinefacta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr