2022 July 27

    Jeff Gaskin writes:

     On July 25th Monday, Kirsten Mills and I drove along Nanaimo River Road looking specifically for Clodius Parnassians and by the 8th km mark we found just three.  You drive along the Island Highway until you come to the exit to Nanaimo River Road, which is just past the Nanaimo or Cassidy airport.  Then you drive for about 8 km and if you go past a street called Elk Trails Way you’ve just gone a bit too far.  This spot has been very reliable for us now as we’ve never been disappointed for the last 3 or 4 years we’ve gone there.

   Butterfliers are reminded to keep a lookout, too, for Parnassius smintheus, which as been suspected in recent years along the railway trail north of Cowichan Station.