2025 May 3 evening
Jeremy Tatum writes: Looks like a Pieris rapae (Cabbage White) evening for me.
One. I was walking along Carey Road and I saw a female Cabbage White fluttering low down at foot level apparently ovipositing on a tiny all-but-unidentifiable (though possibly Raphanus) fragment of vegetation growing out from the cracks between the sidewalk paving stones. Sure enough, I found this egg on one of the plant fragments.
Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae) Jeremy Tatum
Two. For some time, I have been corresponding with an Iranian astronomer at Shiraz University. I deviated from our usual astronomical discussions by asking him to photograph any butterfly he saw there. He duly photographed one, and the photograph arrived this evening – shown below. I was expecting something exotic and foreign, but it rather looks like our familiar Pieris rapae to me. (A bit of caution though – it might just be possible that it is something else.) It’s a little outside the area that I usually allow on this site (i.e. Vancouver Island), I admit.
Probably Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae) Ali Mansouri
Jeremy continues: A saw a Red Admiral on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 4:15 pm today, May 3.
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