2019 April 20

 

   Numbers.  Sonia Voicescu asks that, for butterflies , it would be helpful to her if observers would avoid such phrases as “a few” or “several” and try to give an approximate number.  An accurate count is not needed – a very rough estimate will do.  Even something like “half-a-dozen or so” would be fine.  The problem is that Sonia needs a number before she can submit our observations to eButterfly.  Or, to be more accurate, the eButterfly computer needs a number!

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  There was a California Tortoiseshell on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 3:30 pm yesterday (April 19) afternoon.

  This afternoon (April 20) I walked along the Panhandler Trail off Munn Road and saw:  3 Sara Orangetips, 3 Western Spring Azures, 2 Moss’s Elfins.

 

   Rosemary Jorna writes:  This ladybeetle was on Whiffin Spit  April 19 2019.

Coccinella septempunctata (Col.: Coccinellidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

  Rosemary continues:  Yesterday there was a fresh Grey Hairstreak  in our yard (Kemp Lake Road) but no photo. It was the first one I have seen in our yard in 15 years.  On our walk up Charters Creek we saw three blue butterflies under the trestle, probably Western Spring Azures [Jeremy Tatum writes:  At this tine of year almost certainly],but they would not land.

 

 

 

   Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin:  This morning’s haul consisted of:

 

6 Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli

5 Melanolophia imitata

1 Drepanulatrix monicaria

1 Hydriomena manzanita

and three pugs.  

 

This time I took pictures of the latter:

Eupithecia ravocostaliata/nevadata (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

Eupithecia sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

Eupithecia sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr