2025 June 25
Aziza Cooper writes: Today, June 25, along the Galloping Goose trail near the Sooke Potholes Park, I saw:
Pale Tiger Swallowtail – 3
Lorquin’s Admiral – 6
Blue species – 1
Dun Skipper – 1
Jeremy Tatum writes: I have not done a thorough search of Dun Skipper records, but from InvertAlert records, there were no reports of Dun Skipper in the Southern Vancouver Island Birdwatching Area in the years 2015 to 2024 inclusive. This is a great finding.
Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Aziza Cooper
Pale Tiger Swallowtail Pterourus eurymedon (Lep.: Papilionidae) Aziza Cooper
Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a Satyr Comma butterfly, which emerged from its chrysalis today and was released in a nettle patch near to the Famous Fence on Lochside Trail, from where the caterpillar came. With luck you may still see it near there tomorrow (June 26) The complicated scribbly pattern on the underside of the wings shows that this is a male. The female has much more uniform less scribbly undersides.
Male Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jeremy Tatum
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