2024 September 1

   Marie O’Shaughnessy writes that on August 30, she spent 45 minutes in the afternoon at Government House and saw

2 Cabbage Whites
4 Woodland Skippers
1 Blue-eyed Darner
1 Paddle-tailed Darner

She sends a photograph of one of the Woodland Skippers.

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

Jeremy Tatum shows a photograph of a moth that ecloded (emerged) today, reared from a caterpillar found on Gumweed at Island View Beach during the August 4 VNHS Monthly Butterfly Walk.

Heliothis phloxiphaga  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum