2020 May 7 evening

 

   After a long cool or cloudy period with few or no butterflies, today at last has been warm and sunny and butterflies have  been lining up to have their photographs taken.  Here are some from Peter Boon in Nanaimo and Jochen Möhr in Metchosin – mostly today’s, although Peter’s Painted Lady is from April 21, Little Mountain, Parksville.

 

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Peter Boon

 

Male Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius (Lep,: Hesperiidae)  Peter Boon

 

Female Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Male Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Male Sara Orangetip Anthocharis sara (Lep.: Pieridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Male Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Male Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Cinnabar Moth Tyria jacobaeae (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jochen Möhr