2021 May 16

 

   Gordon Hart writes from Highlands:  On May 14, I saw my first Western Tiger Swallowtail here at home.  On May 15, we had a Pale Tiger Swallowtail, at least three Cabbage Whites, at least two Western Spring Azures, and a Green Comma.  The photograph below is of a Green Comma, May 13.

Green Comma Polygonia faunus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Gordon Hart

 

 

Jeremy Tatum writes: Yesterday I found a tiny first-instar caterpillar, just out of the egg, on willow along the Panhandle trail off Munn Road.  I don’t know what it is, but I’m speculating that it may be the caterpillar of a Green Comma.  We may know better during its next instar.  [Added later:  It has subsequently been confirmed that the caterpillar is indeed that of a Green Comma.]

 

  Green Comma Polygonia faunus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)    Jeremy Tatum

   Jeremy continues:  Here is the pupa of Tetracis jubararia:

 

Tetracis jubararia (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum