2016 June 15
   Jeremy Tatum writes:  At 6:00 pm this evening (June 15) I visited the Mount Tolmie reservoir, and I saw there a Red Admiral and three ladies, which I believe were probably all Painted Ladies.  Yet two of them weren’t “quite right”, and I wonder if one of them might have been the lady reported a few days ago by Jeff as a “lady sp.”  Also a few weeks ago I kept seeing a lady that I wasn’t sure of.  Marie photographed one, which certainly seemed to be a Painted Lady.  It would be interesting if photographers could obtain some images of one or two of the ladies on the reservoir on sunny evenings.

 

   Jeremy Tatum continues:  The caterpillar of the Western Spring Azure that was shown on June 11 has now pupated.  Here is the pupa:

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jeremy Tatum