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 ...
St George’s Day 2024
Jeremy Tatum writes: On Mount Douglas today at 4:30 pm I saw four Sara Orangetips, and, at the very top, hilltopping, were a California Tortoiseshell and a Painted Lady (the first reported to Invert Alert this year), chasing each other around the Teacup. There was a California Tortoiseshell on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 5:00 pm. Did the tortoiseshell and the lady migrate here after spending the winter further south? Or did they overwinter here? Who knows?
At 5:...