2021 April 27

 

   After our recent hot spell, we are back to coolish wettish weather, and butterflies have become scarce again.  Thus Rosemary Jorna saw only one butterfly during a five-hour hike in the Sooke Hills yesterday.  It was her first-of-the-year Western Spring Azure, at Stone Pipe near Mary Vine Creek:

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

   Same with moths – Jochen Möhr had only one moth at his Metchosin home this morning – Venusia  obsoleta/pearsalli:

 

Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr