2020 July 15 morning

 

   Libby Avis sends a photograph of Acronicta funeralis  from Port Alberni, July 11.  Libby writes that this is the first time she has seen it on Vancouver Island, and I, too, (writes Jeremy Tatum) have never seen it either.  It cannot be a common moth here.

 

Acronicta funeralis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Libby Avis

 

      Yesterday, July 14, Jeff Gaskin and Kirsten Mills went to Mount Washington and saw the following butterflies:  At the summit were a Great Arctic, 3 or 4 Hydaspe Fritillaries, and an Anise Swallowtail.  There were no butterflies in Paradise Meadows this time but we also did see on the trails a Boisduval’s Blue and a Western Meadow Fritillary.