2024 July 5 evening

   Marie O’Shaughnessy counted butterflies and dragonflies yesterday, July 4, as follows:

Outerbridge Park
1 Lorquin’s Admiral
1 Western Tiger Swallowtail
1 Cabbage White
4 Essex Skippers

3 Cardinal Meadowhawks
2 Blue-eyed Darners

 McIntyre reservoir
1 Painted Lady
2 Cabbage Whites 

2 Western Pond Hawk, male and female
The female was busily eating a female damsel fly. A vicious predator!
7 Blue Dashers
4 Common Green Darners
4 Blue-eyed Darners
6 Eight-spotted Skimmers
2 Variegated  Meadowhawks
Many damselflies mating

Mount Tolmie
1 Western Tiger Swallowtail
2 Lorquin’s Admirals
2 Painted Ladies
1 Cabbage White
1 Red Admiral

Male Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata  (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata  (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata with damselfly prey (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata  (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Variegated Meadowhawk  Sympetrum corruptum  (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

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

   The moth below was photographed by Jochen Möhr in Metchosin this morning.

Eulithis xylina   (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr