2023 July 3 morning

Aziza Cooper writes:

On July 2, on the July Butterfly Walk, eight people saw a total of eight species of butterflies.

At Mount Tolmie:
Western Tiger Swallowtail – 3
Pale Tiger Swallowtail – 2
Lorquin’s Admiral – 3
Cabbage White – 1

At MacIntyre Reservoir:
Red Admiral – 1
Cabbage White – 10+
Essex Skipper – 10+ 

At Island View Beach:
Red Admiral – 1
Painted Lady – 1
Cabbage White – 5
Lorquin’s Admiral – 8
Essex Skipper – 10+ including one forma pallida

At Mt Tolmie, late afternoon:
West Coast Lady – 1
Painted Lady – 1
Pale Tiger Swallowtail – 1

Also photographed were two species of damselfly, two small moths, a sand wasp and an insect gall.

A small geometrid moth landed on the lens of Gordon Hart’s camera.  While of course he was unable to photograph it, Aziza Cooper managed to get a snap!

The galls shown, on a Nootka Rose, are formed by the larvae of a gall wasp of the Family Cynipidae

 Galls on Rosa nutkana formed by larvae of
Diplolepis polita (Hym.: Cynipidae)
Val George

Moth on Gordon’s camera
Perizoma grandis (Lep.: Geometridae) Aziza Cooper
Thanks to Libby Avis for identification.

Euceratia castella (Lep.: Plutellidae) Aziza Cooper

Amphiagrion abbreviatum (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Aziza Cooper

Enallagma carunculatum (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Aziza Cooper

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Aziza Cooper

West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Aziza Cooper

Sand Wasp Bembix (probably americana) (Hym.: Crabronidae)  Aziza Cooper