For the May 29 posting (inadvertently omitted) see June 9 morning.

2019 May 30

    Libby Avis sends a photograph of a caterpillar of a Common Emerald Moth Hemithea aestivaria, which was was hanging on the underside of a well-chewed Thimbleberry leaf in Port Alberni, May 28.

Common Emerald Hemithea aestivaria (Lep.: Geometridae)

Libby Avis

 

   Rosemary Jorna writes:  This Johnson’s Jumping Spider  was in my fruit bowl just now. It lacks the bit of white I have seen on others in and around our house, Kemp Lake area, May 29.

Johnson’s Jumping Spider Phidippus johnsoni (Ara.: Salticidae)  Rosemary Jorna

   Rosemary continues:  I have been away in Williams Lake (lots of butterflies in the Williams Lake River Valley) for a while.  When I got back I fear my narcissus have had it. The Narcissus Bulb Fly Merodon equestris is back in action in our yard. Kemp Lake area, May 29.

Narcissus Bulb Fly Merodon equestris (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

   Ron Flower writes:  Yesterday May 29 we also went looking for more Field Crescents around 3 pm. We went to the small daisy field beside the native graveyard a kilometer north of Eddy’s on West Saanich  Road, where we found more Field Crescents than we could count.  A very rough guess would be 20 and probably more.  Lots of butterfly sex going on. I think 20 is a light estimate .

 

Field Crescent Phyciodes pratensis (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Ron Flower

Field Crescents Phyciodes pratensis (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Ron Flower

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

Nadata gibbosa	4
Panthea virginarius	1
Perizoma costiguttata	1
Perizoma curvilinea	1
Pheosia californica	1
Tyria jacobaeae	1

Trichordestra liquida (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Pheosia californica (Lep.: Notodontidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  At the top of Mount Douglas early in the afternoon I saw four Pale Tiger Swallowtails and two Anise Swallowtails.  At the top of Mount Tolmie at 6:00 pm today I saw three Painted Ladies, one Mourning Cloak (on the reservoir) and one Pale Tiger Swallowtail.  I seem to be seeing many more Pale Tiger Swallowtails this year than Western Tiger Swallowtails. I wonder if others are finding this.