2024 August 29 evening

Monthly Butterfly Walk  Sunday September 1

Join us on our monthly Butterfly Walk. Each outing is intended to help us learn more about local butterflies. This field trip is weather-dependent as it needs to be sunny and warm to make it worthwhile. We start at the top of Mount Tolmie (off Cedar Hill Cross Road). Meet at 1 p.m. in the lot by the reservoir where we will have an initial look for butterflies and then decide where to go from there. Car-pooling is encouraged. We try to return by 4 p.m. Cancellations or special instructions will be posted on the Invertebrate Alert ( https://www.vicnhs.bc.ca/?cat=8 ) or the calendar (https://www.vicnhs.bc.ca/?page_id=1518 ) closer to the date. Contact Gordon Hart at 250-721-1264 or butterflies@vicnhs.bc.ca for more information.

Butterflies seem to be relatively few at present.  However, this time of year is the time for the possibility of seeing some exciting migratory butterfly, such as a sulphur or a lady.  In any case, there are still quite a lot of dragonflies and damselflies around, so we can make this a combined trip to see and identify butterflies and dragonflies.  It will probably be a good idea to select as our destination somewhere where there be dragons.

Aziza Cooper writes:  Today, August 29, at Cowichan Station, there were four Margined Whites, two Cabbage Whites, one Woodland Skipper and a brief look at a possible Mylitta Crescent.

Margined White  Pieris marginalis  (Lep.: Pieridae)  Aziza Cooper

Margined White  Pieris marginalis  (Lep.: Pieridae)  Aziza Cooper