2022 September 8
Val George sends a photograph of a moth that was on the wall of his Oak Bay house this morning:
Sabulodes aegrotata (Lep.: Geometridae) Val George
Marie O’Shaughnessy sends a photograph of a caterpillar on the fairway of the Victoria Golf Course yesterday:
Yellow Woolly Bear Spilosoma virginica (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy
Cheryl Hoyle sends some photographs from View Royal, September 7.
Honey Bee Apis mellifera (Hym.: Apidae) Cheryl Hoyle
Emmelina monodactyla (Lep.: Pterophoridae) Cheryl Hoyle
Thanks to Libby Avis for identification of the moth below.
Copper Underwing Amphipyra pyramidoides (Lep.: Noctuidae)
Cheryl Hoyle
Two spiders from Ian Cooper:
Philodromus dispar (Ara.: Philodromidae) Ian Cooper
Eratigena (probably duellica) (Ara.: Agelenidae) Ian Cooper
Robert Cowan sends a photograph of a dragonfly from Rocky Point, September 5.
White-faced Meadowhawk Sympetrum obtrusum (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Robert Gowan