2021 July 30

   The VNHS August Butterfly Walk will take place on Sunday August 1.  Meet at the top of Mount Tolmie at 1:00 pm.  After a brief look around there, we will decide where to go.  Royal Roads University has been suggested – there are good numbers of Pine Whites to be seen there.  A few of them are coming down low for nectar, allowing good looks.  The males and females are different in appearance, so you get two for one, so to speak.

    There don’t seem to be huge numbers of other butterflies around just now in this hot weather.  However, there are a few good ones still flying.  Jeff Gaskin writes:

    In case Kirsten Mills hasn’t told you already, she found a Milbert’s Tortoiseshell at the corner of Richmond Avenue and Cedar Hill Cross Road yesterday afternoon, July 29.  I saw a rather late Western Tiger Swallowtail in Finnerty Gardens on a Buddleia bush today, July 30.