2023 August 19

On August 14 Jochen Möhr found this False Widow spider making a meal out of a Pero moth.

Steatoda grossa (Ara.: Theridiidae)
with Pero sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)
Jochen Möhr

He also photographed this small moth on August 14:

Acleris variegata (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jochen Möhr

And this one on August 18:

Coryphista meadii  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Aziza Cooper writes:
On August 16 at Goldstream campground there was one moth on a shower building.  Also that day a katydid was on my porch in Saanich.

On August 17, several wasps were floating on the puddle of spring water on Lochside Drive north of Blenkinsop Lake.

On Aug. 16 at Goldstream Park there were three Woodland Skippers. Along the railroad tracks near Humpback Road were one Woodland Skipper and a Western Tiger Swallowtail.

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Aziza Cooper

Drumming Katydid  Meconema thalassinum (Orth.: Tettigoniidae)  Aziza Cooper

European Paper Wasp Polistes dominula (Hym.: Vespidae)
Aziza Cooper

European Paper Wasps Polistes dominula (Hym.: Vespidae)
Aziza Cooper

Val George found these two moths on the wall of his Oak Bay house this morning, August, 19:

Sabulodes aegrotata  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George

Drepanulatrix sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George

Jeremy Tatum writes:  Today, I visited the area of the Branded Skipper colony on Cordova (Saanichton) Spit.  I saw only two skippers there, both of them Woodland Skippers.   On the way there I saw a Purplish Copper (the first I have seen since 2021) along Island View Beach.  Also found there, along Island View Beach, was a (second instar?) caterpillar of Lorquin’s Admiral on a leaf of Malus fusca  (not yet constructed a hibernaculum).