2024 July 2 morning
Jeremy Tatum shows two moths from his Saanich apartment building today:
Malacosoma californica (Lep.: Lasiocampidae) Jeremy Tatum
Identification uncertain, probably Eudonia echo (Lep.: Crambidae)
Jeremy Tatum
2024 July 1 evening
On June 30, Marie O’Shaughnessy saw, at Swan Lake:
4 Cardinal Meadowhawks
2 Common Green Darners
2 Blue-eyed Darners
1 Western Pondhawk
12 Blue Dashers mostly male
6 Lorquin’s Admirals
2 Western Tiger Swallowtails
1 Cabbage White
1 European Paper Wasp
And on Mount Tolmie
3 Red Admirals all seen together at one point
2 Western Tiger Swallowtails
No Painted (or West Coast) Ladies
Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy
Red Admiral Vanes...