2019 May 7 evening

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I walked along the Panhandler Trail off Munn Road this afternoon and I saw a Cedar Hairstreak, 2 Propertius Duskywings, 6 Sara Orangetips, 12 Western Spring Azures, a few Mesoleuca gratulata, 1 Leptostales rubromarginaria  and one Rheumaptera hastata –  the Spear Moth, or Argent and Sable.   This is the time of year when it is worth looking at every “Mesoleuca gratulata” more closely – it may be Rheumaptera hastata!  In the evening I had a look at the Mount Tolmie reservoir – there was still a California Tortoiseshell there at 6:30 pm.

 

    Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of a Cedar Hairstreak from her Kemp Lake Road garden, May 7. For consistency within this site, I’ll continue to label it Mitoura rosneri, although some authors this year are calling it Callophrys gryneus. You’d scarcely know it was the same butterfly.  I don’t what English name we are supposed to use this year.

Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri (Lep.: Lycaenidae) Rosemary Jorna

 

   More tomorrow morning….