2025 May 4 evening
Aziza Cooper writes : Today, nine participants in the May Butterfly Walk went from Mount Tolmie to Munn Road and to a garden in the Highlands. We found four butterfly species:
Mount Tolmie:
1 Western Spring Azure
1 Cabbage White
Munn Road at Pike Lake:
15 Western Spring Azures
1 Brown Elfin
1 Cabbage White
Private home at Blue Valley Road
1 Green Comma
Western Spring Azures Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)
Aziza Cooper
Geoffrey Newall writes: I found this interesting butterfly while I was hiking at Goldstream Heights today.
Two-banded Grizzled (“Checkered”) Skipper Pyrgus ruralis
(Lep.: Hesperiidae)
Geoffrey Newall
This is the first reported sighting of this species in our area since 2021. This is a slightly darker specimen than usual, and it shows more clearly the “double-banded” pattern after which it gets its English name.
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