2019 August 30

 

    September Butterfly Walk:  Gordon Hart writes:

Hello Butterfly Watchers,
The last Butterfly Walk of the season will be this Sunday, September 1, 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.
See you on Sunday,
Gordon

 

   Gordon Hart sends a picture of the not-so-common Common Green Darner Anax junius from Pedder Bay, August 26.

 

Common Green Darner Anax junius (Odo.: Aeshnidae) Gordon Hart

 

 

      Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Ennomos magnaria

4 Lacinipolia pensilis

8 Neoalcis californiaria

1 Perizoma costiguttata

1 Perizoma curvilinea

2 Tolype distincta

 

Tolype distincta (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Perizoma curvilinea (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Perizoma costiguttata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes: Here is a photograph of a caterpillar of Euplexia benesimilis from East Sooke Park.  The caterpillar is often associated with ferns, and indeed this one was found on the fern Blechnum spicant.  However, ferns are not its only foodplant, and here they show a pronounced liking for Stachys cooleyae (Hedge-nettle or Woundwort).  This one, offered a choice between the fern it started with and the woundwort, quickly transferred to the woundwort.

Euplexia benesimilis (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum