2022 June 10

    Claire Ebendinger sends a photograph of a Cinnabar Moth from the Galloping Goose Trail at Matheson Lake, June 9.

Cinnabar Moth Tyria jacobaeae (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Claire Ebendinger

 

Ken Vaughan writes:  Here’s a Pale Tiger Swallowtail from Mount Tolmie. I spent more than two hours waiting for this chap to settle down, and it never did give me a truly good angle from which to photograph him.  A Western Tiger  Swallowtail flew by and the difference was obvious.

 

Pale  Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Ken Vaughan

 

Jeff Gaskin writes:  This morning, June 10, I saw some butterflies at the University of Victoria.  I saw my first of the year Pale Tiger Swallowtail, a very fresh Mourning Cloak, and one Western Tiger Swallowtail which still seem scarce this year.  Jeremy Tatum writes: I saw my second and third Western Tiger Swallowtails of the year today – one at Carey Road, Victoria, and one at Poplar Avenue, Saanich.