2024 June 30 afternoon

Colias alert!  Ron Flower writes:  Today, Sunday June 30, we spent half an hour chasing a sulphur butterfly around McIntyre Pond and fields.  Probably an Orange Sulphur but could not get a pic. It’s the earliest I have seen one.

Milbert alert!  Aziza Cooper writes:  Today, June 30, there was one Milbert’s Tortoiseshell at Swan Lake along the path near Saanich Road.  Photographs were obtained, which we hope can be shown in the next posting.  There were also five  Essex Skippers and one Western Tiger Swallowtail.

Jochen Möhr sends a photograph from Metchosin of a White Satin Moth, unfortunately out of the reach of the tripod mounted camera.

Male Leucoma salicis   (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)   Jochen Möhr

Scott Gilmore sends a photograph of a net-winged beetle Dictyoptera simplicipes from Paradise Meadows in Strathcona Provincial Park yesterday June 29.

Dictyoptera simplicipes  (Col.: Lycidae)  Scott Gilmore

Ian Cooper writes:   Here’s another selection of pics from my June 28 pre-dawn / early morning photo shoot at *Colquitz River Park in Saanich & the #Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal.

Enoplognatha ovata (Ara.: Theridiidae)   Ian Cooper

Protolophus niger (Opiliones:  Protolophidae)  Ian Cooper

Common Rough Woodlouse – Porcellio scaber (Isopoda: Porcellionidae)   Ian Cooper

Common Striped Woodlouse – Philoscia muscorum (Isopoda: Oniscidae)   Ian Cooper