2021 April 17 morning

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes that, at 5:30 pm on April 16, there were a California Tortoiseshell and a Mourning Cloak on the Mount Tolmie Reservoir.

 

Thomas Barbin sends a photograph of a cocoon of the Ceanothus Silk Moth Hyalophora euryalus attached to an Ocean Spray twig.  He spotted a second one on Manzanita.

 

Ceanothus Silk Moth Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Thomas Barbin

 

Jeremy Tatum  writes:   We have had recent photographs of three species of comma, so here’s an exercise – photographed by Ron Flower at the Goldstream River yesterday.  Which one is it?  Well, I think there’s really no doubt that this is a male Satyr Comma.

 

Male Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Ron Flower

 

 

Male Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Ron Flower

   Ron and Nora also saw this bee, kindly identified for us by Annie Pang as a queen Bombus melanopygus.

 

Bombus melanopygus (Hym.: Apidae)  Ron Flower

   Jochen Möhr photographed this moth in Metchosin last night.

Behrensia conchiformis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr