August 6, evening

 

    Rosemary Jorna sends two photographs of Diploschizia impigritella on Tansy, Kemp Lake, August 6.

Diploschizia impigritella (Lep.: Glyphipterigidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Diploschizia impigritella (Lep.: Glyphipterigidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

 

   Jochen Möhr visited Charles Knighton’s You-Pic Flower Garden on Metchosin Road at the intersection with Witty Beach Road.  He writes: His flowers alone are well worth a visit.  But the butterflies!  The place is teeming with swarms of Woodland Skippers.  There are at least hundreds of them all over the flowers.

   Annie Pang photographed a moth at her back porch today.

Neoalcis californiaria Lep.: Geometridae)  Annie Pang

 

Colias Alert!

   Kirsten Mills writes: Yesterday August 5 I saw a sulphur fly by Island View Road a couple of hundred feet before you hit the beach.  By the time I stopped I only got another quick glance so I couldn’t determine species or take a photo. This morning August 6 at 7 am I saw a Woodland Skipper at Gonzales Point. I have never seen a butterfly that early in the morning. Also Jeff Gaskin and I saw a Western Tiger Swallowtail around 4 pm near Obed and Wascana. Here’s a photo of the Woodland Skipper.

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Kirsten Mills