2025 June 28 morning
Dun Skippers: JeremyTatum writes: I have not done a thorough search of recent Dun Skipper sightings (and probably shan’t do so) but I have found a few sightings in addition to Aziza’s sighting on June 25 this year. Thus:
2016: June 9, one on the Malahat. June 26, two at Spectacle Lake and one on Nanaimo River Road.
2018: June 27, one, Gordon’s Highlands home,
2020: June 28, one, Kinsol Trestle Bridge, and one, Nanoose.
Aziza’s June 25 sighting this year is still a significant one.
A rather less rare lepidopteran is the ubiquitous moth below, photographed this morning at my Saanich apartment.

Idaea dimidiata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jeremy Tatum