2023 April 1

 

   No Butterfly Walk Tomorrow.  The first Butterfly Walk of the year will be on the first Sunday in May.

   Barb McGrenere writes:  On March 30, Mike and I saw our first Mourning Cloak of the season perched on the white flowers of a cherry tree along the Lochside Trail north of Blenkinsop Lake.

   Jeremy Tatum posts a photograph of Egira crucialis. The moth, which ecloded (emerged) today, was reared from a caterpillar found last year, and its identity is therefore not in doubt.  This suggests strongly that the two moths shown on March 29 are also E. crucialis as labelled.

Egira crucialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   On the same day that Gordon Hart (March 28) photographed the bee Bombus melanopygus in his Highlands garden (see March 29 posting), Gordon also photographed there another somewhat similar bee.  We thank Steven Roias for confirming its identification as B. vancouverensis.

Bombus vancouverensis  (Hym.: Apidae)  Gordon Hart