2022 August 17

    Jeff Gaskin writes:   The Orange Sulphur that I reported yesterday morning just before noon August 16, could not be relocated later in the afternoon.  I took Kirsten Mills over there to see if we could get it confirmed or at least photographed but we couldn’t find it.  It is however a great place for dragonflies.  We also saw a Cardinal Meadowhawk, and both Paddle-tailed and Blue-eyed Darners.  [That’s in addition to the ones Jeff reported yesterday.  To his list, writes Jeremy Tatum, I can add Western Pondhawk.]

     Val George sends a photograph of a small ermine moth  (genus Yponomeuta) from the wall of his Oak Bay house this morning.   The several species of this genus are difficult to distinguish, the larval foodplants perhaps offering the best (but maybe not watertight) clue.  The presence of a nearby apple tree suggests the probability of Y. malinellus.

 

Yponomeuta sp. (Lep.: Yponomeutidae)  Val George