2019 May 4 morning

 

   VNHS Monthly Butterfly Walk.   The first of this year’s monthly butterfly walks will take place this Sunday, May 5.  Meet at the top of Mount Tolmie (off Cedar Hill Cross Road) next to the reservoir at 1:00 p.m.   We’ll have an initial look for butterflies there, and then decide where to go from there.  All welcome.

 

   Some recent sightings from Gordon Hart from his Highlands property:

 

April 28th, a Western Spring Azure and a Sara Orangetip.

May 1, 1 Western Brown Elfin, 3 Western Spring Azures, and a Sara Orangetip.

May 2 , some Western Spring Azures (about 3), and a Propertius Duskywing.

Mount Tolmie, April 30, a California Darner Rhionaeschna californica.

 

California Darner Rhionaeschna californica (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Gordon Hart

 

 

   This morning’s moth haul from Jochen Möhr, Metchosin:

 

2 Eupithecias

1 Feralia, probably comstocki

1 Orthosia transparens

1 Perizoma curvilinea

1 Selenia alciphearia

 

Selenia alciphearia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr