2024 March 27
Ian Cooper recounts a little adventure he had with a wasp: A wasp landed on my hand while I was in the kitchen a couple days ago. After my initial surprise, I managed to capture it in a jar with air holes in the lid and gave it a slice of apple to dine on. I then brought it along on yesterday’s pre-dawn photo shoot at Colquitz and View Royal and released it on to some flowers by the E&N Trail in Esquimalt once the sun was up on my way back into Victoria.
Polistes dominula ...
2024 March 24
First report this year of a Cabbage White – one flew across the highway today when Val George was driving through Duncan.
If you look at the Full Moon at around midnight tonight Sunday/Monday, +/- 30 minutes or so, you may notice a faint shadow across its face, not very obvious. The Moon is in the faint outer shadow (penumbra) of Earth. This is a penumbral eclipse of the Moon. If you were on the Moon, you would see a partial (not total) eclipse of the Sun by Earth.