2020 July 11 morning

 

   Jeremy Tatum reports one Painted Lady on the road underneath the Mount Tolmie Jeffery Pine at 6:00 pm, July  10.   It was very fresh – I’d like to think it was the one that I released near there recently, reared from caterpillar.  Also, on the railing at the entrance to the Mount Tolmie reservoir, a Red Admiral.

 

On July 10, Jochen Möhr saw several Essex Skippers on his Metchosin property.  Here are pictures of four of them.   But Jochen also remarks that on a 1.5 km walk along the Galloping Goose Trail he saw no butterflies at all, mirroring the experience that many of us are having this year when all butterflies are scarce.

 

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae)   Jochen Möhr

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae)   Jochen Möhr

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae)   Jochen Möhr

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae)   Jochen Möhr