2018 August 18

 

   Sonia Voicescu writes:  I was at Rithet’s Bog on Wednesday (August 15) and I saw the following:

9 Vancouver Island Ringlets (2nd brood of the summer is out and doing well it seems)

3 Cabbage Whites

1 Lorquin’s Admiral

2 Pine Whites

24 Woodland skippers

Ringlet (Large Heath) Coenonympha tullia

(Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae)

Sonia Voicescu

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Sonia Voicescu

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Sonia Voicescu

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   Cabbages are not the only plants that Cabbage White caterpillars will eat.  Here is one found on Horseradish at King’s Pond, Ascot Drive.  Also there today I saw a Lorquin’s Admiral.

 

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