2024 April 15 evening

   Although we had a warm day yesterday, with several butterflies seen, today there has been a bitterly cold wind, and no one hes reported any.  However I find that I overlooked an eletter from Gordon Hart yesterday, April 14, reporting that at his Highlands home he saw four Green Commas all at the same time in the late afternoon in a sunny patch. There were also Mourning Cloaks and Western Spring Azures.

Jeremy Tatum writes: Re Ken Vaughan’s comma butterfly reported in this morning’s Invert Alert, I’m still hoping for an expert opinion, but at the moment I am pretty much convinced that it is indeed an Oreas Comma.   Quite an exciting find!  Let us all keep a good look-out for this species.