2023 July 11

   Anne Ashley photographed this grasshopper today in her Wilmer Street garden:

 Dissosteira carolina  (Orth.: Acrididae)  Anne Ashley

Jeremy Tatum writes that at 4:30 this afternoon one each of the three Vanessas – Painted Lady, West Coast Lady, Red Admiral – were still on the Mount Tolmie reservoir, while two more Painted Ladies flew around the Jeffery Pine.

We have not finished yet this year with Red Admirals and Mourning Cloaks.  Here is a Red Admiral caterpillar, and a Mourning Cloak caterpillar preparing to pupate.  The adult butterflies should be out in a few weeks.

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jeremy Tatum

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

We shall have to wait until next Spring, however, to see the moth arising from this caterpillar:

Egira crucialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Val George has been having a number of Chlorochroa ligata Stink Bugs on his raspberry plants in Oak Bay.  Here is an adult and a nymph of the same species.

Chlorochroa ligata  (Hem.: Pentatomidae)  Val George

Chlorochroa ligata  (Hem.: Pentatomidae)  Val George