2019 June 1 evening

 

    Jeremy Tatum writes:  I visited the railway line north of Cowichan Station today.  Only one Margined White.   I believe the species is double-brooded, and that we are now between the spring and the summer broods.  There will be more later on.  Also seen there:  a Painted Lady,  a Cedar Hairstreak, five Western Tiger Swallowtails, and evidence of recent feeding on Stinging Nettles by caterpillars of the Satyr Comma.  And, very exciting, a bee hawk moth Hemaris thetis nectaring on Dame’s Rocket Hesperis matronalis.  It looked very like a bumblebee indeed.

 

   At 6:30 this evening at least six Painted Ladies around the Jeffery Pine at the top of Mount Tolmie, and one West Coast Lady basking on the concrete reservoir.

 

   Jeff Gaskin  writes:  Today, June 1st, I found at least five Field Crescents in their usual spot along Stelly’s Cross Road behind Eddy’s Storage.