2023 June 7 morning

    Swallowtail butterflies and Lorquin’s Admirals are in full swing just now.   Jochen Möhr counted seven swallowtails simultaneously on June 6 at the intersection of Metchosin and Lagoon Roads. He shows photographs of two individual Pale Tiger Swallowtails.

   Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon  (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Jochen Möhr

  Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon  (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Jochen Möhr

   Jeremy Tatum reports that on the evening of July 6 there were still a Red Admiral and a Pacific Coast Lady on the Mount Tolmie reservoir, still flying strongly, although beginning to look a little beyond their Best Before date.

Judy Smith found a cluster of Ladybird Beetle eggs of a leaf of one of her tomato plants in Victoria.  I think, writes Jeremy Tatum, that these are probably the introduced Asiatic Harmonia axyridis, because I believe the eggs of most of our native ladybirds are rather more elongated than these are.

Ladybird eggs, probably Harmonia axyridis (Col.: Coccinellidae)
Jeremy Tatum

   Aziza Cooper sends photographs of a Lorquin’s Admiral and a Blue Dasher from Swan Lake, June 4.

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini  (Lep.:  Nymphalidae)
Aziza Cooper

Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis  (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Aziza Cooper