2022 June 12

    Jeff Gaskin writes:  June 11, on Christmas Hill one Anise Swallowtail at the summit and a Pale Tiger Swallowtail on my way down towards Rainbow Avenue.

   Barb McGrenere writes from the Cadboro Bay area:   This Cedar Hairstreak was feeding on June 11 on the flowers of our highbush cranberry. 

Cedar Hairstreak Incisalia rosneri (Lep.: Lycaenidae) Barb and Mike McGrenere

[Note: This butterfly may be found in the literature under many different names – English, genus and species.  It impractical to keep up with an ever-changing and extensive synonymy on this site.  For consistency we stick with one name throughout the site.]

   The scarcity of butterflies and moths this spring is tempting Jochen Möhr to try for other creatures.  He recorded this fly at Metchosin today:

Syritta pipiens (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Jochen Möhr

   Moths are not entirely absent, however, and John and Christine McClarnon found this large – if somewhat less than pristine –  giant silk moth in the Hazlitt Creek area.

Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae) John and Christine McClarnon