2025 June 28 morning

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