2023 July 29

   A selection of goodies from Aziza Cooper on Olympic Drive off Goldstream Heights, July 28.   Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identification of the beetles.

Grey Hairstreak  Strymon  melinus  (Lep.: Lycaenidae)
Aziza Cooper

Jeremy Tatum comments: Many different larval foodplants have been recorded for this butterfly, although I have three times found caterpillars on Pearly Everlasting.  But perhaps this butterfly was just nectaring.

Mylitta Crescent Phyciodes mylitta  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Aziza Cooper

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides  (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper

Bee fly – perhaps Hemipenthes sp. (Dip.: Bombyliidae)
Aziza Cooper

Polistes aurifer (Hym.: Vespidae)  Aziza Cooper

Mordella sp.  (Col.: Mordellidae) Aziza Cooper

Xestoleptura crassipes (Col.: Cerambycidae) Aziza Cooper

Marie O’Shaughnessy visited McIntyre Reservoir yesterday, July 28.  Although butterflies were limited to seven Cabbage Whites, dragonflies are unaffected by the absence of flowering Teasels, and Marie did rather better with them.  She recorded a pair of Blue-eyed Darners (in cop.), seven Eight-spotted Skimmers and three Black Saddlebags.

Blue-eyed Darners Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Eight-spotted Skimmer Libellula forensis (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Black Saddlebags Tramea lacerata  Marie O’Shaughnessy