2024 June 7

Jeff Gaskin writes:  Today, June 7,  I found my first of the year Cardinal Meadowhawks in Cuthbert Holmes Park,  by the ponds near Admirals Road.  There were two, and also there were several California Darners.  Strange to say I still haven’t seen a Swallowtail or Lorquin’s Admiral in Victoria  this year.  There have been very few butterflies in the Burnside/Gorge neighbourhood; only Cabbage Whites are around.

Jeremy Tatum replies:  I think I have seen only one swallowtail (a Western Tiger), but then I haven’t been out very much.  It is still a little early for large numbers Lorquin’s Admirals.  What are others finding?

Jeremy Tatum writes:   This moth turned up at my Saanich apartment this morning.

Stenoporpia excelsaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum