2016 October 8

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I show below two photographs of a chrysalis of the Two-banded Grizzled Skipper, resulting from an ovum that Devon Parker found in the spring.  This hardly counts as an “alert” and strictly should not be allowed!  I couldn’t get my camera to where the caterpillar had hidden itself earlier on, but today, while preparing my pupae for the winter, I was forced to move it, so I took the opportunity of photographing it.  I thought I should post the photos, because I doubt if the pupa of this species has been photographed very often.

   I also post a photograph of an Indian Meal Moth from a corridor wall in my Saanich apartment building this morning.

Two-banded Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus ruralis (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Two-banded Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus ruralis (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Indian Meal Moth Plodia interpunctella (Lep.: Pyralidae) Jeremy Tatum