2023 June 23 morning

   There was a lot of butterfly activity on Mount Tolmie around 6:30 pm yesterday.  Here’s what Aziza Cooper scored:

Painted Lady – 5

West Coast Lady – 2

Red Admiral – 1

Lorquin’s Admiral – 2

Pale Tiger Swallowtail – 1

Western Tiger Swallowtail – 2

Cabbage White – 1

There are still Mourning Cloaks to be seen.  Gordon Hart saw two imagines at the Pike Lake Substation ponds in June 21.

[In case you are trying to sort out the grammar of the above sentence, Gordon saw two adult Mourning Cloaks.  The adult stage of a butterfly is technically called an imago (plural imagines – four syllables).]

The Mourning Cloak caterpillar shown on June 21 has pupated and formed this chrysalis:

Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Jeremy Tatum

And here’s a nice miscellany by Ian Cooper from the junction of the E&N and Galloping Goose Trails, May 28.

Psyllobora vigintimaculata (Col.: Coccinellidae)  Ian Cooper

Probably Aritranis sp. (Hym. Ichneumonidae)  Ian Cooper

Female Eris militaris (Ara.: Saltcidae)  Ian Cooper
We are grateful to Thomas Barbin for the identification of this spider.

Young female Enallagma carunculatum (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Ian Cooper

Young female Enallagma carunculatum (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Ian Cooper
We are grateful to Dr Rob Cannings for the identification of this damselfly.

Volucella facialis (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper