2024 August 26 morning

No Invertebrate Alert was issued on August 25.

Marie O’Shaughnessy shows another photograph – this time a lateral view – of the grasshopper shown on August 24.  This enabled James Miskelly to identify it with certainty.   James writes:  This confirms that it’s Melanoplus sanguinipes.  If Marie or the readers are interested in identification notes, this is the only Melanoplus on Vancouver Island that has diagonal stripes on the outer face of the hind femurs.

Melanoplus sanguinipes  (Orth.: Acrididae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Marie writes that the butterflies at McIntyre Reservoir on the afternoon of August 25 were.

1 Painted Lady
4 Cabbage Whites
10 Woodland Skippers 

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

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

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

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides  (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Gordon Hart writes:  Here at home in the Highlands, on Sunday August 25 we saw a nice Black Saddlebags. It perched for a minute, so I was able to photograph it. It stayed a while hunting with a couple of Paddle-tailed Darners before disappearing. The only butterflies today were a Cabbage White and at least two Woodland Skippers.

Black Saddlebags Tramea lacerata  (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Gordon Hart