2016 June 27

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  There have been almost no moths at my apartment porch light for a long time, so I am reduced to photographing a harvestman.  Some people call them “daddy-long-legs” – although this name is used in different parts of the world for other sorts of arachnid or insect, so it is best to call them harvestmen.

 

 Harvestman Phalangium opilio (Opiliones:  Phalangiidae)   Jeremy Tatum

   Jeremy continues:  Although there was nothing else near our porch light, I found this assassin bug on the window of my living room in Saanich today.  If you see one of these bugs, you would be well advised not to handle it.  They have a reputation for being able to give a painful bite.

 

   Val George writes:  Attached is a photo of a Variegated Meadowhawk Sympetrum corruptum I took at the Victoria Golf Course, June 26.

 

Variegated Meadowhawk Sympetrum corruptum (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Val George

   Aziza Cooper writes:   On Sunday, June 26, Moralea Milne and I went to several places looking for butterflies and a moth.

 

Nanaimo River Road, between 9:30 and 10:30am:

Dun Skipper – 1

Pale Tiger Swallowtail – 1

Sylvan Hairstreak – 1

Grey Hairstreak – 2

Fritillary – possibly Hydaspe – 1

Lorquin’s Admiral – 1

 

Notch Hill, off Powder Point Rd. in Nanoose

– search for a Grammia moth was unsuccessful

 

Mount Cokely: Cameron Main to Pass Main to old ski area:

Dun Skipper 1 on lower part of Cameron Main near the Connector

Pale Tiger Swallowtail – 10

Anise Swallowtail – 1

Western Tiger Swallowtail – 5

Comma species – 1 flyby

Fritillary species – 5 flybys

Lorquin’s Admiral – 2

Clodius Parnassian – 7

Silvery Blue

Anna’s Blue

Western Tailed Blue

Sara Orangetip – 6

Persius Duskywing – 1

Arctic Skipper (Carterocephalus palaemon) – 3

Margined White – 3 near the last bridge/trailhead on Pass Main

 

Total species for the day (including Cabbage White along the highway) – 18

 

 

Sylvan Hairstreak Satyrium sylvinum (Lep.: Lycaenidae) Aziza Cooper