2020 April 20 morning

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here in suburban Saanich I don’t have quite the variety of moths than Jochen has in rural Metchosin, but my apartment is not totally devoid of moths.  Here, for example this morning, is the Common Clothes Moth Tineola bisselliella, from my bedroom.

 

Tineola bisselliella (Lep.: Tineidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   Rosemary Jorna writes from the Kemp Lake area:  I saw butterflies out in the Otter Point area yesterday. A Cabbage White in our yard , a Mourning Cloak  and a Western Spring Azure  near Young Lake and three Western Spring Azures dancing on the hillside below a friend’s deck. All of them were too far away or too fast to photograph,  but it is a joy to see some butterflies out here at last.
 I did get this photo of a cuckoo bee or nomad bee in my sister’s yard on Kemp Lake Road:

Nomada sp.  (Hym.:  Apidae)  Rosemary Jorna