2019 July 19 morning

 

Notice from Gordon Hart: 

 

The July Butterfly Count starts Saturday, July 20,  running until next Sunday, July 28. You can submit a count anytime over this period, and you can do more than one count, just use a separate form for each count. In the case of repeat counts, or more than one person counting an area, I will take the highest count for each species.

Please use the form at https://www.vicnhs.bc.ca/?p=33 on the Victoria Natural History Society website .

The count area is the same as the Victoria Christmas Bird Count circle. For butterfly identification there are numerous internet sites, but most or all Victoria species are listed on E-Fauna. If you select by photographer, all the photos under James Miskelly’s name are of Victoria species. Here is the link: http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/efauna/photoGallery/Gallery.aspx?gr=showall&pid=175&photographer=miskelly,%20james&specrep=0

If you would like a suggestion for an area to count, please send me an email.

In addition to the counts, a monthly Butterfly Walk is held on the first Sunday of each month – the next walk will be on August 4. We start at the summit of Mount Tolmie at 1pm, and decide where to go from there. I will send out another reminder the week before.

Thank-you for submitting your sightings and happy counting!

Gordon Hart,

Butterfly Count Coordinator,

Victoria Natural History Society

 

   Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin:

Yesterday, there was almost nothing (1 Hesperumia sulphuraria and 1 Hormothodes hanhami)

Today, It’s a little better, as there is one new one for this wall and for July.  [And for this site – Jeremy T.]

1 Dichagyris variabilis

1 Drepanulatrix secundaria

1 Eulithis xylina

1 Nadata gibbosa 

1 Pero mizon

1 Sicya crocearia 

2 pictures attached

 

Drepanulatrix secundaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Dichagyris variabilis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr