2022 July 8 morning

    Marie O’Shaughnessy writes:  At 2:00 pm on July 7th, I stopped by Mount Tolmie for 30 minutes, hoping to find a Painted Lady.  This lovely bright, orange butterfly flew in for 10-15 seconds up at the summit, and was soon gone.  I thought to myself: “ That isn’t a  Painted Lady” ,  so I had to do some research to find out what it was.  Jeff Gaskin confirmed that it was a West Coast Lady.

Jeremy Tatum writes:  This is the first West Coast Lady reported to Invertebrate Alert since 2019.

West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Jeremy Tatum writes:  The Woolly Bear caterpillar shown on May 30 produced this spectacular Garden Tiger Moth last night.  I released it along Lochside Drive near Lohbrunner Road – and promptly found another caterpillar within yards of where I released the moth.

Garden Tiger Moth Arctia caja (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Jochen Möhr sends photographs of two moths from Metchosin this morning. The first below is familiar enough, but the second, identified for us by Libby Avis as Perizoma grandis, is a new species for this site, which was started in March 2010.

 

Female Malacosoma californicum (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jochen Möhr

Perizoma grandis  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr