2017 July 1

Canada Day

 

   Reminder:  Monthly Butterfly Walk on Sunday July 2.  For details see June 30 morning entry.  All welcome.

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I went to Latoria Creek Park today. That is a good place for butterflies in the spring – however, there were no adult butterflies there at all today.  I did, however, find a Satyr Comma caterpillar on a nettle, so we haven’t lost this species entirely.  I also saw a Red Admiral caterpillar on nettle at Swan Lake. Near the front door of the Nature House there were two superficially similar all-white moths, though a closer look showed that one was Spilosoma virginica and the other was Leucoma salicis – a nice opportunity to see the differences.

 

  Wylie Thomas writes:  I spotted these in Uplands Park on Friday (June 30)!

 

Sheep Moths Hemileuca eglanterina (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Wylie Thomas