2020 April 9

 

  eButterfly.    Last year Sonia Voicescu kindly entered all our Invert Alert butterfly sightings into eButterfly, and we thank her greatly for this initiative and for the hours she spent on this task.  This year, Sonia has a heavy workload at UVic and would very much like to be relieved of this task.  If any viewer of this site, perhaps someone familiar with eBird, would like to enter our butterfly observations into eButterrfly this year, please do let me know (Jeremy Tatum:   jtatum at uvic dot ca).  Sonia will be very happy to explain it all to you and to start you off.

 

   Sonia mentions that she has just seen her first Cabbage White of the year at the corner of Brentwood Drive and Marchant Road, April 8.

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I have just discovered that the Invert Alert for April 8 evening somehow didn’t go out, so I have just posted it now (April 9!) a day late.

 

   Gordon Hart writes from Highlands:  Today we had the same butterflies as yesterday with the addition of a Mourning Cloak and a possible Green Comma, Polygonia faunus. It seemed smaller and with a black wing band, but I did not see the underside.

 

Green Comma Polygonia faunus (Lep: Nymphalidae)  Gordon Hart

 

Green Comma Polygonia faunus (Lep: Nymphalidae)  Gordon Hart 

Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa (Lep: Nymphalidae)  Gordon Hart

 

  More tomorrow … didn’t quite have time to finish today’s posting!  JT