2017 May 9

   Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a Large Yellow Underwing from his Saanich apartment last night.

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of a beetle found under a rock in her Kemp Lake area garden, May 7.  Charlene Wood writes:  This is the Greater Night-stalking Tiger Beetle Omus dejeanii. Primitive, nocturnal, wingless, and distributed from southwestern BC to southwestern Oregon. A nice sight! Similar to the threatened Omus audouini, but separated by dejeanii having larger punctures on the elytra, pronotum constricted behind (rather than parallel), and pronotum with a depression on the midline.  

Greater Night-stalking Tiger Beetle Omus dejeanii (Col.: Carabidae – Cicindelinae)

Rosemary Jorna

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I wonder if the Mount Tolmie hill-topping season has at last arrived.  At 4:30 this afternoon I went there, and there were two Painted Ladies near the Jeffery Pine, and a Painted Lady and a Red Admiral on the reservoir.