2024 July 13 morning

   Marie O’Shaughnessy spent an hour at Swan Lake on the morning of July 12, and she reports:

2 Lorquin’s Admirals and 1 Western Tiger Swallowtail
2 Black Saddlebags , 1 Common Green Darner, 2 Blue-eyed  Darners,
20 Blue Dashers,  and 1 Western Pondhawk perched nicely on a stick close to the ground near the parking lot.

Blue Dashers Pachydiplax longipennis (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

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

Jochen Möhr sends photographs of a butterfly and a moth from his Metchosin property, July 12:

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jochen Möhr

Male Malacosoma californica  (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jochen Möhr
[From 2024 we are following the ATC, which uses the -ca spelling for this species.]

Ian Cooper writes:  Here are some recent photos taken by the ^ E&N Trail in Esquimalt and the # Galloping Goose Trail 9km marker on July 11 & 12.

^ Leaf-cutter bee (Hym.: Megachilidae)   Ian Cooper

# Crane Fly  Tipula pubera (Dip.: Tipulidae)   Ian Cooper

# Mosquito – Culiseta incidens (Dip.: Culicidae)   Ian Cooper

  Otiorhynchus singularis  (Col.: Curculionidae)   Ian Cooper