2023 September 2

    Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of Acleris rhombana  from View Royal September 1.

Acleris rhombana (Lep.: Tortricidae)   Cheryl Hoyle

Marie O’Shaughnessy sends photographs from Swan Lake, August 30, of a fly and of two dragonflies.

Chaetopsis fulvifrons (Dip.: Ulidiidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Chaetopsis fulvifrons (Dip.: Ulidiidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis  (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Female Shadow Darner Aeshna umbrosa  (Odo.: Aeshnidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

The dragonfly appears to have bits of Watermeal Wolffia adhering to its abdomen.  Dr Rob Cannings tells us that it is of the blue (“occidentalis”) form.

Marie visited McIntyre reservoir on August 31, where she saw a Blue-eyed Darner, a Cardinal Meadowhawk, a Paddle-tailed Darner, four Cabbage Whites, nine Woodland Skippers.  She sends the following photographs:

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

Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata  (Odo.: Aeshnidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

The above photograph illustrates that dragonflies beat the fore- and hindwings separately.

Cardinal Meadowhawk  Sympetrum illotum (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Barb and Mike McGrenere found this Yellow Woolly Bear today in the Martindale area:

Spilosoma virginica (Lep.:  Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jeremy Tatum