2019 June 23

 

   Mike Yip saw 15 species of butterfly on Mount Cokely yesterday, including these two little beauties:

 

Arctic (also known as Chequered) Skipper Carterocephalus palaemon (Lep.: Hesperiidae)

Mike Yip

 

Mariposa Copper Lycaena mariposa (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Mike Yip

 

   Jeremy Tatum reports that he saw the recently deserted nests of about a dozen Painted Lady caterpillars along Millstream Road yesterday.   Single caterpillars of the Painted Lady make an easily-recognizable silk nest soiled with frass on thistles; when they are ready to pupate, they wander off.  That’s what I mean by “recently deserted nests” – the caterpillars were presumably OK and have now pupated somewhere.

 

   Gordon Hart saw a Grey Hairstreak, missing one tail, in his Highlands garden yesterday,  and one each of Pale Tiger Swallowtail, Lorquin’s Admiral, Western Tiger Swallowtail , and Cabbage White.

 

Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Gordon Hart

 

   Val George sends a photo of a Chalk-fronted Corporal  Ladona julia  taken at Durrance Lake yesterday, June 22.

 

Chalk-fronted Corporal Ladona julia (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Val George

 

      Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

 

Enypia packardata	2
Lacinipolia strigicollis	2
Macaria adonis	1
Nadata gibbosa	1

 

 

Lacinipolia strigicollis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Macaria adonis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr