2022 July 22

    Cheryl Hoyle sends photographs of a slug and a moth from View Royal, July 20

Three-banded Garden Slug Lehmannia valentiana (Pul.: Limacidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

Sicya crocearia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Cheryl Hoyle

   Jochen Möhr photographed this moth in Metchosin this morning.  As yet we have not been able to identify it.  If we do so, of course we shall post the identification.

Unknown moth (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

   Jeff Gaskin reports that he saw a Satyr Comma at Royal Roads University today. Take the trail from Heatherbell Road at the gate.  Also, today , July 22, Kirsten Mills told him that she saw a male Purplish Copper by the McIntyre Road reservoir and two Pine Whites in the firs at the corner of the Pat Bay Highway and Sayward Road.