2024 July 29 morning

Marie O’Shaughnessy writes:
Dragonflies at Beaver Lake July 25- 27th 2024.
There were a few species at one of the small ponds Saturday.
Several female Blue Dashers were looking very worn. Blue Dashers seem to be the predominant dragonflies at most ponds and lakes that I have visited over the past week.

There were several Blue-eyed Darners hanging on twigs away from the pond yesterday, when the sun was hidden by cloud.

I have seen over the past 3 days,
  1 Black Saddlebags
4 Blue-eyed Darners
1 Cardinal Meadowhawk
1 Dot- tailed Whiteface
1  Western Pondhawk
14 Blue Dashers
3  Eight-spotted Skimmers
2 Paddletail Darners
1 Striped Meadowhawk

There were only two Cabbage White butterflies.

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

Striped Meadowhawk  Sympetrum pallipes  (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

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

Male Blue Dasher  Pachydiplax longipennis  (Odo.: Libllulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

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

Dot-tailed Whiteface Leucorrhinia  intacta (Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy

   We thank Val George for the identification of the bug in Ian Cooper’s photograph in yesterday’s positng.  Val writes:  That one just happens to be one of the several species of stink bugs I get in my Oak Bay garden. It’s a nymph of the Conchuela Bug Chlorochroa ligata.  eFauna has a couple of images of that stage of development of the species and comments that it’s the 4^th or 5^th instar. I’ve attached a photo I took in my garden of a whole herd of them.

Conchuela Bug  Chlorochroa ligata  (Hem.: Pentatomidae)  Val George