2025 April 14 morning
Michael Ryan reports a sighting of a Mourning Cloak along Craigflower Road on February 24 for the first butterfly reported this year.
Kirsten Mills reports that she and Jeff Gaskin saw a Mourning Cloak and a (probable Satyr) Comma at Cowichan Bay Dock on February 28.
Gordon Hart photographed a Green Comma in his Highlands property on March 6. He saw another (or the same?) one there on March 25.
Green Comma Polygonia faunus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Gordon Hart
Marie O’Shaughnessy saw three California Tortoiseshells chasing each other around the top of Mount Tolmie on April 3. On the same day, Burl Jantzen saw a butterfly on Mill Hill that sounded, from his description, quite likely another California Tortoiseshell.
California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy
On March 28 and April 11, Ian Cooper went out to check on a Tiger Swallowtail chrysalis that he has been keeping his eye on all winter:
Tiger Swallowtail Pterourus sp. (Lep.: Papilionidae) Ian Cooper
Tiger Swallowtail Pterourus sp. (Lep.: Papilionidae) Ian Cooper
Mike and Barb McGrenere photographed this Satyr Comma in their Cordova Bay garden on April 1.
Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Mike and Barb McGrenere
Jeff Gaskin writes that on April 3rd, there was a Western Spring Azure that passed through his mother’s garden on Wascana Street in the Burnside/Gorge community. Aziza Cooper photographed one at Quick’s Bottom on April 10, and Wendy Ansell photographed one at Rithet’s Bog on April 12.
Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)
Aziza Cooper
Aziza Cooper reports three Cabbage Whites, one on April 4 at Quadra and Bay, and two on April 3, in Metchosin at Pedder Bay and Metchosin Road and Witty’s Lagoon parking lot.
Marie O’Shaughnessy reports a Mourning Cloak on Mount Tolmie and a Cabbage White in Uplands Park on April 4. Val George reports his first Cabbage White of the year in his Oak Bay garden, April 5. Wendy Ansell reports a Cabbage White on April 6. Jeremy Tatum saw his first on April 8, and two more on April 12, and another on April13.
Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy
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