2020 July 13 afternoon

 

   The Red Admiral butterfly that was inside the coloured-up chrysalis in this morning’s posting emerged around noon today.  I am amazed at the speed at which it conducted its emergence.  I had the camera all set up in front of the chrysalis, but, in the minimal time I took to adjust the camera settings, the butterfly had completed its emergence, and I got just the one photograph shown below:

 

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

    Val George writes:  Yesterday morning, July 12, the group that did the VNHS botany walk in Uplands Park in Oak Bay saw two Painted Ladies, a Red Admiral and many Cabbage Whites and Essex Skippers.

 

   Jeff Gaskin wrote that he saw a California Tortoiseshell by the Viaduct Flats parking lot this morning, July 13.

 

   Two more crane flies photographed by Jochen Möhr in Metchosin:

 

Crane fly (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Crane fly (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Jochen’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Callizzia amorata

1 Eulithis xylina

1 Hesperumia sulphuraria

2 Lacinipolia strigicollis 

1 Nadata gibbosa

1 Panthea virginarius

3 Pyrausta perrubralis

 

Pyrausta perrubralis (Lep.: Crambidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Eulithis xylina (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr