2016 May 13

   Jeremy Tatum shows a photograph of a Rough Prominent, Mount Tolmie, May 13. The caterpillar feeds on oak.  The hump on the back of the moth reflects its scientific name “gibbosa”, which means “hump-backed”.

Rough Prominent Nadata gibbosa (Lep.: Notodontidae)   Jeremy Tatum

   Jeff Gaskin and Aziza Cooper both visited Mount Tolmie on May 11, around 6 pm and 7 pm respectively, and between them they recorded:

Western Tiger Swallowtail – 1

Pale Tiger Swallowtail – 1

West Coast Lady – 2

Red Admiral – 2

Propertius Duskywing – 1

California Tortoiseshell – 1

   Aziza sends a couple of photographs from there:

 West Coast Lady  Vanessa annabella (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Aziza Cooper

Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  The West Coast Lady is a typical one.  I wonder if the second one that they saw was the strange one that I mention in the May 12 evening posting.  I am hoping that someone can get a photo of it.

   Annie Pang has managed to get her (and this site’s) first photograph of the year of a Western Tiger Swallowtail, at Gorge Park, May 12.

 Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Annie Pang