2020 July 3 evening
Marie O’Shaughnessy writes: I took a brief walk through Uplands Park at noon today and I saw nine Sheep Moths flying around. Only one was settled. It was a nice female depositing eggs.
Jeremy Tatum writes: Upon what is it depositing eggs? I usually find the eggs on Ocean Spray, Snowberry or Nootka Rose. This looks like grass, or a rush – something the caterpillars might not like.
Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina (Lep.: Saturniidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy
Also at Uplands Park, a Blue-eyed Darner, a Lorquin’s Admiral, and 11 Essex Skippers.
Female Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna muliticolor
(Odo.: Aeshnidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy
Marie has also been to McIntyre Reservoir recently, and has seen there “all the usual dragonflies”, plus one Black Saddlebags, lots of fresh Western Pondhawks, Blue Dasher, Blue-eyed Darner, California Darner , Eight-spotted Skimmers, Cardinal Meadowhawk, and Tule Bluet.
Val George writes: This afternoon, July 3, I checked out the railway track at Cowichan Station. My butterfly count was: 3 Margined Whites, 3 Cabbage Whites, several other unidentifiable Whites, 2 Satyr Commas, 2 Essex Skippers, and one each of Lorquin’s Admiral, Western Tiger Swallowtail and Pale Tiger Swallowtail.
Margined White Pieris marginalis (Lep.: Pieridae) Val George
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