July 25 afternoon

 

   Ron Flower reports that he saw no fewer than five Anise Swallowtails at McIntyre reservoir yesterday, July 24.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  Apologies for not posting that immediately – I wondered if it was a typing mistake, but it wasn’t!   They really were Anises.   I went there this afternoon, July 25, where I saw a female Purplish Copper.

 

  On July 22, we showed a photograph by Jochen Möhr of a geometrid moth with a mite on it.  Just two days later David Harris (who visited Victoria in June) sent me a similar photograph of another geometrid moth, in England, also carrying a mite.  The moth, having been photographed in England, is even more illegal on this site than Jody’s trout, but I slip it in here just for interest, and for comparison with Jochen’s.

 

Scopula marginepunctata (Lep.: Geometridae)   David Harris