2025 June 2 evening
Most of the exciting butterflies during yesterday’s Butterfly Walk were seen at the tops of Mounts Douglas and Tolmie. Very few butterflies were seen at Rithet’s Bog. However, Wendy Ansell reports a Lorquin’s Admiral from Rithet’s Bog today.
Ian Cooper photographed the following flies and bee on California Lilac (Ceanothus) growing by Academy Close, a footpath behind St. Anne’s Academy, on June 01 2025.
Flower Fly Eupeodes fumipennis (Dip.: Syrphidae) Ian Cooper
Drone Fly Eristalis tenax (Dip.: Syrphidae) Ian Cooper
Flower Fly Myathropa florea (Dip.: Syrphidae) Ian Cooper
Yellow-faced bumblebee Bombus vosnesenskii (Hym.: Apidae) Ian Cooper
Jeremy Tatum writes: I believe the caterpillar below is a Lesser Yellow Underwing Moth Noctua comes, but I shan’t be sure until the adult moth emerges.
Probably Noctua comes (Lep.: Noctuidae – Noctuinae)
Jeremy Tatum
Invert Sightings 