2023 August 17 evening

   For the last several days it has been too hot for both humans and for butterflies to spend much time outside in the open, so butterfly sightings have been few.  However, there are still some to be seen.  Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed a Painted Lady and a Woodland Skipper, as well as the moth Autographa californica at McIntyre reservoir today.  There was a Lorquin’s Admiral at Gordon Hart’s Highlands home today.  And in Metchosin, Jochen Möhr saw a Pine White and photographed a Red Admiral.  Jeff Gaskin writes: Today, August 17, I saw another Lorquin’s Admiral in the Gorge.  Bill Dancer told me he saw a rather late Western Tiger Swallowtail the other day or on the 15th in his backyard on Sherwood Road near Arbutus Road.   Cabbage Whites and Woodland Skippers are still fairly numerous.

 Painted Lady Vanessa cardui  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Autographa californica  (Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Jochen Möhr