2017 June 7, evening

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Amazing!   This morning I received a photograph, posted on this morning’s Alert, of Sphinx perelegans from Salt Spring Island, and just three hours after I posted it now we have another one – sent by Kurtis Herperger, from the base of Mill Hill in Langford.  Although I have (a very few times) seen the look-alike Sphinx vashti and its caterpillar, I have never actually seen the slightly larger perelegans. Both are spectacular insects!

Sphinx perelegans (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Kurtis Herperger

   Gordon Hart writes:  On Tuesday June 6, several of us went up to the Goldstream Heights area to find Grey Jays. No luck with that, but we did see two Two-banded Grizzled Skippers, a Cedar Hairstreak, and a few dragonflies.  Today in Uplands Park, there were at least two Western Tiger Swallowtails, a Cabbage White and a Painted Lady.

Two-banded Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus ruralis (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Gordon Hart

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  Today, June 07, there were at least 8 Field Crescents amongst the grass and daisies right by Eddy’s Storage on Stelly’s Cross  Road, which is about 300 – 400 metres west of West Saanich Road.

  Aziza Cooper writes:  Yesterday, June 6, I was at the Victoria Golf Course at 7:15am, and a Red Admiral was perching on a pine trunk.

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Aziza Cooper