2023 August 8 afternoon
2023 August 8 afternoon
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Here are three bumble bees from Sunday’s (August 6) VNHS Butterfly Walk, kindly identified for us by Steven Roias. Lorquin’s Admirals being a little scarce recently, Steven reports having seen one at Royal Roads University on August 6, and one at Tod Inlet on August 7.
Male Bombus vancouverensis (Hym.: Apidae) Gordon Hart
Male Bombus vancouverensis (Hym.: Apidae) Aziza Cooper
Male Bombus flavifrons (Hym.: Apidae) Aziza Cooper
Also from that Walk, two unidentified hymenopterans, believed to be Adrenidae. If anyone can help, please do so!
Probably Mining bee (Hym.: Adrenidae) Gordon Hart
Probably Mining bee (Hym.: Adrenidae) Gordon Hart
Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed this Paddle-tailed Darner at Outerbridge Park. She is fascinated with the human faces that some dragonflies have.
Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata (Odo.: Aeshnidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy
Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata (Odo.: Aeshnidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy
Marie photographed this Soldier beetle at McIntyre reservoir, August 6:
Soldier beetle Rhagonycha fulva (Col.: Cantharidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy
She also photographed these two stink bug nymphs – the first one at Cowichan River Park, August 2; the second one at Outerbridge Park, August 5. We thank Scott Gilmore for their identification.
Brochymena sp. (Hem.: Pentatomidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy
Cosmopepla intergressa (Hem.: Pentatomidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy
Aziza Cooper photographed a Mourning Cloak along Lochside Trail north of Blenkinsop Lake on August 7.
Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa (Lep.: Nymphalidae)
Aziza Cooper
Cheryl Hoyle photographed the following along the Dallas Road waterfront on August 7. We need someome who is good at Hymenoptera to help witi identifications in that Order (other than Bombus). Jeremy Tatum writes: I’m making a wild guess at Halictidae for the first one.
Hymenoptera – possibly Halictidae. Cheryl Hoyle
Bombus vosnesenskii (Hym.: Apidae) Cheryl Hoyle
Bombus vosnesenskii (Hym.: Apidae) Cheryl Hoyle
Male Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae) Cheryl Hoyle
Female Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae) Cheryl Hoyle
Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Cheryl Hoyle
More tomorrow…