2019 May 31 morning

 

June Butterfly Walk  

Gordon Hart writes:

 

   This is a reminder about the June Butterfly Walk on for Sunday, June 2, at 1 p.m . We meet near the Mount Tolmie summit by the reservoir parking lot. After a look around the summit area, we will decide on a destination from there.  All welcome!

 

  Gordon continues:  I have also noticed many more Pale Tiger Swallowtails this year, although in the last few days, we have been seeing a few Western Tiger Swallowtails here at home. Today, I dropped by the top of Mount Tolmie around 3 p.m. and saw one Mourning Cloak, two Anise Swallowtails, at least one each Western Tiger Swallowtail and Pale Tiger Swallowtail, and a Propertius Duskywing.  Just below the reservoir were two fresh Lorquin’s Admirals, my first of the year, and a Cabbage White.

 

   Annie Pang and Jeremy Tatum have been trying to figure out how to tell the difference between a male and a female Propertius Duskywing.  The photographs by Annie below are of a female.  We welcome more photographs of this species for more practice.

 

 

Female Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Annie Pang

 

 

Female Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Annie Pang

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

 

Furcula scolopendrina	1
Lophocampa maculata	1
Nadata gibbosa	4
Panthea virginarius	3
Pero behrensaria	1
Pero morrisonaria	1
Pheosia californica	1
Trichordestra liquida	1
Tyria jacobaeae	4

 

Pero behrensaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Pero morrisonaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Hydriomena californiata/marinata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Furcula scolopendrina (Lep.: Notodontidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Udea profundalis (Lep.: Crambidae)  Jochen Möhr