2025 June 11 afternoon
Marie O’Shaughnessy writes: An afternoon visit to Swan Lake for 90 minutes on June 10 revealed these butterflies:
1 Western Spring Azure
1 Western Tiger Swallowtail
9 Lorquin’s Admirals
and these dragonflies:
2 Blue-eyed Darners
1 Cardinal Meadowhawk
12 Blue Dashers
Marie continues: A quick visit to Mount Tolmie at 12. 30 pm for 30 minutes on June 10 to watch the aggressive behaviours of the Lorquin’s Admiral and Swallowtail butterflies as they frequented the flowers of the now blooming Philadelphus bush. I counted
3 Western Tiger Swallowtails
2 Pale Tiger Swallowtails
3 Cabbage Whites
2 Western Spring Azures
4 Lorquin’s Admirals
1 Anise Swallowtail
1 possible ? Painted Lady as it fluttered by in the distance
plus 1 California Darner dragonfly
Jeremy Tatum found the moth shown below at his Saanich apartment today, June 11. Although it is not in the genus Eupithecia, it is in the closely-related genus Pasiphila and cheerfully carries the English name Green Pug. Some specimens show a lot of green. Some, like this one, not quite so much.
Green Pug Pasiphila rectangulata (Lep.: Geometridae)
Jeremy Tatum
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