2023 July 16

   Marie O’Shaughnessy writes:  I was in Uplands Park today for a short while looking for butterflies. Since it was too hot, I was on my way out and a Black Saddlebags passed by. It was the only dragonfly I saw.   Butterflies were

2 Lorquin’s Admirals
1 Cabbage White
1 Western Tiger Swallowtail

 Jeremy Tatum responds:  Yes, I looked for butterflies on the UVic campus today, and all I saw were

2 Lorquin’s Admirals
6 Cabbage Whites
3 Western Tiger Swallowtails

Nevertheless, it is still probably worth looking in the late afternoons for hill-topping nymphalids on Mount Tolmie, Mount Douglas, Christmas Hill and Highrock Hill. (Bear Hill and Mount Newton may be too heavily forested, though you never know.)

Here is Marie’s photograph of a Black Saddlebags.

Black Saddlebags Tramia lacerata (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy