2021 October 16

    Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a moth from the back door of his Saanich apartment this morning.   I believe this is not native to North America, but is from Europe.

Juniper Carpet Thera juniperata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

   Jeff Gaskin writes:   After not seeing any butterflies in Victoria since October 8, I found some today, October 16.  I had four Cabbage Whites in the Burnside / Gorge community with two at the Gorge Park community garden  and the other two in the Gorge neighbourhood.  But the big surprise was a nice Mourning Cloak as I was walking down Christmas Hill.