2025 September 10 afternoon
Butterfly Alert!
Non-Cabbage butterflies have been so scarce in recent weeks that it is exciting to hear from Jochen Möhr, who writes: On Sunday September 7, I spent a few hours around noon on the parking lot of Matheson Lake Park. I was delighted finally – a first after three years of not seeing any – to spot several Pine Whites up in the Douglas Firs. Several times, I spotted up to three simultaneously, but as they were appearing in different trees, there must be half a dozen to a dozen of them around. So, not all are lost!
Jeremy Tatum writes: The tree tops at Matheson Lake have occasionally in previous years been a place where numerous Pine Whites have been seen, from the parking lot, late in the year. If you haven’t seen a Pine White recently, now is a chance to go out and see them (possibly rather high up). They won’t be there much longer this year.
In case there are those who thought that the Painted Lady was a butterfly, here is a September 9 predawn photograph by Ian Cooper of a Painted Lady Beetle in View Royal. Perhaps, writes Jeremy Tatum, we could avoid confusion by calling it the Painted Ladybird Beetle.
Painted Ladybird Beetle Mulsantina picta (Col.: Coccinellidae)
Ian Cooper
The scientific name “picta” means, of course, “painted”.
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