2019 July 01 morning

   Mark Wynja writes:  Today while exploring the Northwest Bay Logging Roads I found 2 Dun Skippers.They were about 1.5 km apart up towards Rhododendron Lake.  1 Western Sulphur and 2 Margined Whites were the other highlights.

  Jeremy Tatum writes:  Three of Mark’s photographs will also be a challenge to the botanists.   The butterfly in the first photograph has some white spots on the forewing.  I believe this indicates that it is a female.

Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Mark Wynja

Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Mark Wynja

Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Mark Wynja

Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Mark Wynja

Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Mark Wynja

…more this afternoon or evening.

2019 June 30 evening

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  At 6:30 pm this evening at the top of Christmas Hill were c8 Painted Ladies and a Grey Hairstreak. 

   Here’s another moth from Jochen Möhr’s haul in Metchosin this morning.

Spiramater lutra (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

2019 June 30

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

1 Biston betularia

1 Clostera apicalis

1 Dasychira grisefacta

1 Drepana arcuata

1 Hesperumia latipennis

1 Heperumia sulphuraria

2 Iridopsis larvaria

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Leucania sp

6 Nadata gibbosa

1 Schizura ipomoeae

1 Tyria jacobaeae

Probably Leucania farcta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Dasychira grisefacta (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)  Jochen Möhr

Hesperumia latipennis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Hesperumia sulphuraria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Peppered Moth Biston betularia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Iridopsis emasculatum (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

In June, Jochen recorded a total of 140 individual moths from 67 species.

2019 June 29 evening

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  This afternoon I walked from Island View Beach to the tip of Cordova Spit.  Not many butterflies, but here are the few I saw:  6 Essex Skippers,  1 Woodland Skipper (my first of the year – maybe the first reported to Invert Alert, I’m not sure), 12 Cabbage Whites, 2 Lorquin’s Admirals, 1 Painted Lady.  I didn’t go into fields inland to see if there were any Ringlets there – there probably are.

  This evening at 6:30 pm, 4 Painted Ladies and 2 Lorquin’s Admirals at the top of Mount Tolmie.

2019 June 29 morning

  Yesterday, Jochen Möhr had a huge haul in Metchosin.   A huge thank you to Libby Avis for help with the identifications of Jochen’s and Cheryl’s.

1 Callizia amorata

2 Drepanulatrix sp

Clostera apicalis (Lep.: Notodontidae)  Jochen Möhr

Clostera apicalis (Lep.: Notodontidae)  Jochen Möhr

Lacinipolia cuneata (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Drepanulatirx secundaria/monicaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Unidentified micro (Lep.: Pyralidae – probably Scopariinae)

Jochen Möhr

Eulithis xylina (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

Callizzia amorata (Lep.: Uraniidae)  Jochen Möhr

Homorthodes hanhami (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Iridopsis emasculatum (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Schizura ipomoeae (Lep.: Notodontidae)  Jochen Möhr

Scopula sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Stenoporpia excelsaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

  Cheryl Hoyle sends photographs of a fairly familiar caterpillar, and a pair of far-from-familiar and not-often-photographed sesiids (clearwing moths)  – ­ an exciting find. Thanks for the identification, Libby Avis.

Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 Strawberry Crown Borer Synanthedon bibionipennis  (Lep.: Sesiidae)  Cheryl Hoyle