2023 July 18

  There was no Invert Alert for July 17.  Today, I have so much that I probably shan’t get them all in today.  Some may have to wait until tomorrow.  This is a very nice problem to have!

   Marie O’Shaughnessy visited Parksville yesterday and saw and photographed butterflies and dragonflies and damselflies.
Butterflies seen were:
3 Lorquin’s Admirals
2 Western Tiger Swallowtails
5 Cabbage Whites
1 Grey Hairstreak
1 Mylitta Crescent
2 Woodland Skippers

Dragonflies and damselfies were:
3 Common Whitetail
2 Common Green Darner
1 Eight-spotted Skimmer
1 California Darner
many Tule Bluets
several Western and Pacific Forktails

   Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Western Forktail  Ischnura perparva  (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia  (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia  (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Jeff Gaskin writes: Today, July 18, I found an Anise Swallowtail in the same vacant lot where the Yellow-breasted Chat was being seen – Wilkinson Road at Dunsterville Road.  There are lots of Fennel plants growing there so that’s probably the reason why this swallowtail is there.

Also, a Common Ringlet was at the disc playing fields in Layritz Park and another Mourning Cloak was in Copley Park.

Jeremy Tatum writes:  Yesterday, July 17, I saw eight Western Tiger Swallowtails and one Painted Lady at Highrock Hill in Esquimalt.  Today, an adult Mourning Cloak emerged from its chrysalis – formed by one of the caterpillars from the Cattle Point bunch.  I released it in Playfair Park.