2024 June 6

   Marie O’Shaughnessy reported the following butterfly sightings from several areas, June 5:

Mount Tolmie Park.  1 Cabbage White at 10 am
Panama Flats 12 noon,   3 Cabbage Whites and 1 Mourning Cloak
Blenkinsop Road  1 pm 2 Cabbage Whites.
Outerbridge Park 2 pm 2 Cabbage Whites and 1 Pale Tiger Swallowtail.

And she sends photographs of butterflies, dragon/damselflies and a spider, also June 5.

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

Two Painted Ladies from Mount Tolmie:

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Pacific Forktail  Ischnura cervula  (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

California Darner Rhionaeschna californica  (Odo.: Aeshnidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

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

Goldenrod Crab Spider  Misumena vatia  (Ara.: Thomisidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Azzia Cooper writes:

Today, June 6, at Viaduct Flats parking lot, there was a Western Tiger Swallowtail, a Cabbage White, a Western Spring Azure and a Lorquin’s Admiral.

At the corner of Koksilah Road and the Trans-Canada Highway, there were hundreds of lupins, but only one Silvery Blue.

At Cowichan Station, there were no white butterflies. There were four Cedar Hairstreaks and one blue butterfly, not seen well enough for identification.

Cedar Hairstreak  Callophrys gryneus  (Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Aziza Cooper

Silvery Blue  Glaucopsyche lygdamus  (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Aziza Cooper

Unknown, possibly leaf-cutter bee (Hym.: Megachilidae)  Aziza Cooper