2022 May 9

    Jeff Gaskin writes:  Just a couple of butterflies of note seen in the last two days.  First of all a Western Spring Azure seen on the Royal Roads University grounds.  It was seen while on the VNHS birding trip there.  Today,  May 9, a Mourning Cloak was in the south east corner of Panama Flats which was also where it was, the same spot, a few days ago when Geoffrey Newell saw it

Val George writes:  On May 8, I saw my first Red Admiral of the season. It was on the reservoir at Mount Tolmie. And for viewers of this site who may not have seen the short write-up I did for the most recent issue of the VNHS Newsletter, this past winter I put together a website called Vancouver Island Butterflies – a Photographic Guide. It can be found most easily by going to vancouverislandbutterflies.com.   [See also the April 30 entry on this site – Jeremy Tatum.]

 

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Val George

 

Rosemary Jorna writes:  A micro moth and  a small fly from the Galloping Goose yesterday  between Charters and Tod Creek trestles.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  The moth is Adela trigrapha, but I’m afraid I don’t even know the Family of the fly!  If any viewer can help, please do so!

 

Adela trigrapha (Lep.: Adelidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Unknown dipteran   Rosemary Jorna