2023 August 21 evening

Continuing from this morning’s Invert Alert with recent spider photographs by Ian Cooper, taken by the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal on Aug 18 2023.

#Female Eratigena duellica/agrestis (Ara: Agelenidae)
Ian Cooper

#Female Running Crab Spider: Philodromus dispar
(Ara.: Philodromidae)
Ian Cooper

Jeff Gaskin writes:
I found some more hilltopping butterflies yesterday, August 20.  At Christmas Hill around 5 p.m there were three Painted Ladies and one Red Admiral seen at the summit.  Also, a total of 59 Woodland Skippers were seen mostly on Nelthorpe Street, where there were 36, and another 16 on Saanich Road,  six on Taine Road,  and one near the Swan Lake nature house.

Today,  August 21, the only butterflies of note were just one Pine White in all those firs at Royal Roads University, and a Lorquin’s Admiral.  I also found just two Woodland Skippers at the University. The only other butterfly species I saw was the Cabbage White and there were only 12 of them.   There was a Black Saddlebags dragonfly outside the Colwood Library this morning, August 21.