2022 July 21 afternoon

    Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin:  Our Lorquin’s Admiral 11 days later, still guarding the parking space and taking on whoever intrudes – be it me, swallowtails, Cabbage Whites or even dragonflies!  

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jochen Möhr

   Ren Ferguson forwards some photographs obtained by Larkin Schmiedl on Salt Spring Island on July 18.

Hemithea aestivaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Larkin Schmiedl

 

Spilosoma virginica (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae) Larkin Schmiedl

 

Malacosoma californicum (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)   Larkin Schmiedl