2017 September 1 evening

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  August is gone, and every butterfly from now on counts!   I visited Martindale today, and there are still large numbers of Cabbage Whites there, but I also saw, in the Forbidden Field to the south of Martindale, two Orange Sulphurs.  [I watched them from the side of the road!]  There is a huge patch of Alfalfa in the Forbidden Field, especially near the L-reservoir, and I bet there are Orange Sulphurs there, perhaps even breeding.  But the Forbidden Field is the Forbidden Field.

 

  There was a worn but still strongly-flying Red Admiral just outside the entrance to the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 6:15 pm this evening.

 

  Here’s a photograph of a Lophocampa maculata caterpillar, from Goldstream Park.  We’ll be seeing lots of these in the next few weeks.

 

Lophocampa maculata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

 

   Lots more interesting stuff in the pipeline, but it is going to have to wait until tomorrow.  I may be able to do a morning posting.