2024 June 14

  Submitting photographs to Invertebrate Alert.  It would be very helpful if PC-contributors would submit photographs as attachments with .jpg or .jpeg extension.  [I hate to put it another way, but it is quite time-consuming and a lot of work when photographs are submitted otherwise!]   This note applies to PC-users.  Only a few are using Macs – please carry on doing it the way you are doing at present.

Also, I must ask contributors to limit themselves to sixpixmax – i.e no more than six pictures from a single contributor per day.  Thank you all!

    Gordon Hart reports a Western Tiger Swallowtail from Uplands Park, June 13.  Geoffrey Newall saw two Sheep Moths there on the same day.

Val George reports the first Red Admiral this year from Mount Douglas, June 13.  Also, there were four Painted Ladies and two or three Pale Tiger Swallowtails.

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Val George

Marie O’Shaughnessy writes from Swan Lake, June 12:  Three Cardinal Meadowhawks, two were in tandem and hiding out of the wind.  Two Common Green Darners that wouldn’t hover, just patrolled continuously.  One female Blue Dasher.  Also, there was a very worn Mourning Cloak and a brief visit from a Western Tiger Swallowtail.

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

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

Ian Cooper photographed this spider spotted on a tree trunk on June 13 in View Royal.  Dr Robb Bennett agrees that it is a species of Cybaeus, possibly C. signifer, but he can’t be certain of the species.

Cybaeus sp. (possibly signifer)   Ian Cooper