2023 May 30

     Yet another Mourning Cloak – Jeremy Tatum saw one near the Don Mann yard at Lochside Drive yesterday evening.

Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of a caterpillar of a Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata  from Metchosin May 29.

Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)
Jochen Möhr

Marie O’Shaughnessy sends photographs of a Cabbage White and a California Darner from Outerbridge Park, May 29.

Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

California Darner Rhionaeschna californica (Odo.: Aeshnidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy