2021 August 22

    Colias alert!   Mark Wynja writes:  On August 20, 2021 I went looking for two Short-tailed Shearwaters reported sitting on the water at the foot of Bowser Road, Bowser. When I arrived there at the beach my attention was drawn to a yellow butterfly fluttering just above the high watermark, I grabbed my camera and carefully edged closer, it would only touch down for a second or two before flying again. Eventually I managed a single burst of photos that show a female Clouded Sulphur perched and flying up out of the frame.

    Jeremy Tatum writes:  The plant is a Lathyrus.  Notice the egg on the leaf below the butterfly.

Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice (Lep.: Pieridae)  Mark Wynja

 

Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice (Lep.: Pieridae)  Mark Wynja

 

Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice (Lep.: Pieridae)  Mark Wynja

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  A nice fresh Lorquin’s Admiral was seen in Cuthbert Holmes Park, August 21.  Everything else I saw today were just Cabbage Whites and Woodland Skippers.

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I saw a Ringlet Coenonympha tullia at Island View Beach today, August 22.

  Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin, August 21:  I was able to spot two Woodland Skippers on the dandelions and one Eupithecia sp. at the black light – not to mention two tiny, tiny micros.  No Pine Whites despite watching for them off and on for hours.  Here is a crab spider.  Does this critter really have eight eyes???   Jeremy Tatum replies:  I believe most (not all) species of spider have eight eyes.  I can’t imagine what the universe looks like with eight eyes!

Misumena vatia (Ara.: Thomisidae)  Jochen Möhr