2024 June 9

   Aziza Cooper photographed this millepede at Killarney Lake, and the Bumble Bee near the Hartland landfill on June 8.  We thank Steven Roias for identifying the bee as a male Bombus melanopygus.

Harpaphe haydeniana  (Polydesmida:  Xystodesmidae)   Aziza Cooper

Male Bombus melanopygus  (Hym.: Apidae)   Aziza Cooper

Jeremy Tatum photographed this moth at his Saanich apartment this morning.  Although not in the genus Eupithecia, it is in the closely-related genus Pasiphila and is known as the Green Pug.

Green Pug Pasiphila rectangulata  (Lep.: Geometridae)     Jeremy Tatum

Marie O’Shaughnessy writes: An early afternoon visit to McIntyre reservoir on June 8 provided a number of dragonflies and damselflies and a few Cabbage White butterflies

I found a good-looking female Eight-spotted Skimmer,
2 Blue-eyed Darners
1 Common Green Darner,  very active and unable to get a photo
6 Cardinal Meadowhawks, 2 in tandem.
At least 8 Damselflies, Pacific Forktails and Tule Bluets….Some in tandem.

The only butterflies seen there  today were three Cabbage Whites.  Two additional Cabbage Whites were near Blenkinsop Lake, and one at Outerbridge Park.  Also at Outerbridge Park were two Western Spring Azures and two Blue-eyed Darners.

Tule Bluet  Enallagma carunculatum   (Odo.: Coenagriondae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

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

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

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