BUTTERFLIES & SKIPPERS of BOUNDARY BAY

A Preliminary List - additions and corrections welcomed.
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Species                                          Scientific Name
Woodland Skipper                        Ochlodes sylvanoides
Common Roadside Skipper        Amblyscirtes vialis
Anise Swallowtail                         Papilio zelicaon
Western Tiger Swallowtail           Papilio rutulus
Pale Swallowtail                            Papilio eurymedon
Pine White                                  Neophasia menapia
Sara Orange Tip                        Anthocharis sara
Clouded Sulphur                        Colias philodice
Cabbage Butterfly                     Pieris rapae
Mustard White                         Pieris napi
Brown Elfin                                Callophrys augustinus
Western Pine Elfin                   Callophrys eryphon
Moss’s Elfin                               Callophrys mossii
Gray Hairstreak                       Strymon melinus
Rosner’s Hairstreak                 Mitoura rosneri
Purplish Copper                    Lycaena helloides
Mariposa Copper                    Lycaena mariposa
Spring Azure                           Celastrina ladon
Silvery Blue                            Glaucopsyche lygdamus
Lorquin’s Admiral                      Limenitis lorquini
Red Admiral                                Vanessa atalanta
Painted Lady                        Vanessa cardui
Western Painted Lady           Vanessa annabella
Milbert’s Tortoiseshell          Aglais milberti
Mourning Cloak                  Nymphalis antiopa
Satyr Comma                       Polygonia satyrus
Monarch                                   Danaus plexippus          uncommon
Mylitta Crescent                   Phycoides mylitta


SOURCES

Anne & Len Murray observations
Dunster and Associates list for Panorama
Ken  White The insects of the Alaksen National Wildlife Area   Environment Canada, CWS. September 1984
Perdichuk, wildlife of Burns Bog
Roger Ashton   BC Naturalist July 1992 issue
Roger Ashton   Nettle Butterflies of the Lower Mainland  March 1990 Discovery Vol.19 No.1
VNHS Garden Butterflies of the Georgia Basin, coloured pamphlet compiled by Richard C. Beard for the VNHS. No
date.
Annex Site for
A Nature Guide to
Boundary Bay
by Anne Murray
with photographs by
David Blevins

Anise Swallowtail Butterfly near
Boundary Bay