2018 June 27

 

   In case anyone is looking for the June 26 Invert Alert – there wasn’t one!

 

   Aziza Cooper writes:  On June 23 I saw one Red Admiral at Mount Tolmie. There were also four Painted Ladies, one Western Tiger Swallowtail and one Lorquin’s Admiral.

 

   Today, June 26, some bees were on the foreshore near Bowker Creek mouth. What would they be after?  [Any suggestions, anyone – or can anyone identify the bees?]

 

   Have you noticed how aggressive Lorquin’s Admirals are? They almost always swoop close to any person that passes them. I once had one swoop past my car!   [Jeremy Tatum –Yes, what with Lorquin’s Admirals and Northwestern Crows, Victoria is a pretty dangerous place!]

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Bees on the seashore     Aziza Cooper

 

   Kirsten Mills writes:   Jeff Gaskin and I went to Kinsol Trestle around 1:45 pm on June 26. We saw this hairstreak which was very worn.   We think it’s a cedar but just want to double check.  [Jeremy Tatum writes:   Yes, I’ll go along with Cedar Hairstreak – but we’d welcome comments from other butterfly-ers.]  Later we went to Cowichan Station and saw two Margined Whites and dozens of dragonflies.  Here are some photographs.

 

Probably Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri (Lep.: Lycaenidae)   Kirsten Mills

 

Probably Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri (Lep.: Lycaenidae) plus a thrips (Thysanoptera)

Kirsten Mills

 

Margined White Pieris marginalis (Lep.: Pieridae)  Kirsten Mills

 

 

Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Kirsten Mills

 

   Gordon Hart writes from the Highlands:  We saw one European (Essex) Skipper today along with a Dun Skipper on lavender plants.  We also had one Cedar Hairstreak, two Cabbage Whites, some Western Tiger Swallowtails, and many Lorquin’s Admirals. There were six on one bush feeding on sweet sticky aphid excretions .

 

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Gordon Hart

 

Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Gordon Hart