2018 June 2

 

   Reminder:  Monthly Butterfly Walk tomorrow, Sunday June 3, 1:00 pm, top of Mount Tolmie.

 

   Jochen Möhr sends a picture of a Large Yellow Underwing from his Metchosin garden.   In case anyone is unsure about what are meant by orbicular stigma (round spot) or reniform stigma (kidney-shaped spot), have a look at this moth.  Now you know!

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

  The story of the butterfly below was told on May 23, when I asked for no Cabbage White photographs that week, because I was involved in a conference. Instead I was given a dozen or so Cabbage White caterpillars by a conference delegate!  A photograph of one of them was shown on May 24, and the chrysalis was shown two days later.  Now the adult has emerged (photograph below), June 2, just nine days having been spent in the pupal stage.

Female Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae) Jeremy Tatum

 

   Annie Pang sends two views of a Western Tiger Swallowtail from Gorge Park, Victoria, May 30.

Western Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio rutulus (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Annie Pang

Western Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio rutulus (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Annie Pang

 

  Jochen Möhr reports seeing a bee hawk moth Hemaris thetis in Metchosin today.