2015 August 19

   Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a pupa of Cerisy’s Eyed Hawk Moth, from a caterpillar found at Livesay Road, Central Saanich.

Smerinthus cerisyi (Lep.: Sphingidae)   Jeremy Tatum

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  A Red Admiral was in my mother’s backyard in the Gorge community today, August 19.

    Val George writes:  The August 18 post noted that most of the remaining butterflies are Cabbage Whites and Woodland Skippers.  I agree but this morning, August 19, I saw a Mourning Cloak in Oak Bay.  Also when I did my official August count, August 16, I had 5 Painted Ladies and a West Coast Lady at the summit of Mount Douglas in the evening.