2021 April 30

 

May Butterfly Walk Cancelled

Message from Gordon Hart

 

   Because of the BC Public Health Officer’s ongoing efforts to stop the spread of Covid-19 and its variants, I have cancelled the May Butterfly Walk scheduled for Sunday, May 2.  Hiking outside is still encouraged, so please get out and enjoy the spring weather and look for butterflies. I have not finished compiling our recent April count, but at least eight species were found.
I hope next month will bring better news,
Gordon

 

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a small caterpillar found on Ocean Spray on Christmas Hill.  It will grow much larger.

 

 

Tetracis jubararia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin:

 This morning:

4 Eupithecia sp. 

1 Phyllodesma americana

1 Sabulodes aegrotata – a different one from yesterday

and one Dunno – later identified by Libby Avis as Egira curialis

 

Sabulodes aegrotata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Egira curialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr