2020 May 19 morning

 

    Gordon Hart sends a photograph of a Green Pug, which he reared from caterpillar in the Highlands.

 

Green Pug Pasiphila rectangulata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

   Mike Yip writes from Nanoose:  Two Painted Ladies and a steady stream of Pale Swallowtails and Western Spring Azures in my garden prompted me to trade in the rake and shovel for the camera. While I was at it, I decided to visit Cross Road knowing it was time for the Western Tailed Blues and Western Pine Elfins, and they were both in the exact same locations as in past years.

 

Pale Tiger Swallowtail  Papilio eurymedon (Lep.: Papilionidae)   Mik Yip

Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Mike Yip

Western Tailed Blue Everes amyntula (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Mike Yip

Western Tailed Blue Everes amyntula (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Mike Yip

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Mike Yip

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Mike Yip

Western Pine Elfin Incisalia eryphon (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Mike Yip

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Mike Yip

   Peter Boon writes:  With the warm sunshine I went to Cross Road in Nanoose hoping for Western Tailed Blues and lo and behold I found some – at least two males and a female ovipositing on a vetch sp. There were also around 6 Western Spring Azures and 1 maybe 2 Western Pine Elfins.

 

Western Tailed Blue Everes eryphon  (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Peter Boon

 

Western Pine Elfin Incisalia eryphon (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Peter Boon

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Eupithecia cretaceata

1 Eupithecia sp.

1 Egira rubrica

1 Melanolophia imitata

7 Tyria jacobaeae

3 Venusia obsoleta /pearsalli

 

also on the wall in previous afternoon:

2 Adela septentrionella 

1 Endrosis sarcitrella

 

Adela septentrionella (Lep.: Adelidae)  Jochen Möhr

Endrosis sarcitrella (Lep.: Oecophoridae)  Jochen Möhr