2024 April 24 evening

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I mentioned on the April 23 posting that a young lady, who was passing when I released the Ceanothus Silk Moth, took a photograph of it in more natural surroundings.  I have added Talia’s photograph to the April 23 posting – viewers can scroll back to have a look at this spectacular moth.

Today, Aziza Cooper photographed a damselfly and an early-instar geometrid (but otherwise unidentified) caterpillar at Swan Lake:

Pacific Forktail  Ischnura cervula (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Aziza Cooper

Unidentified geometrid caterpillar  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Aziza Cooper