2022 July 12 morning

    Marie O’Shaughnessy writes:  Thank you for your suggestion re Painted Lady butterfly  [that they flutter around the Jeffery Pine at the top of Mount Tolmie].  I found three fluttering around that big Jeffery Pine at 6.15 pm on July 11.  Just as you predicted  –  one even settled along the roadside.  Three were busy chasing one another most of the time so they didn’t settle for long. The one that settled was pretty worn.   The Western Tiger Swallowtail was the most abundant butterfly at that time, with a total of seven.      I saw four Lorquin’s Admirals, two Red Admirals and one Cabbage White.

Painted Lady  Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Painted Lady  Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy