2020 June 4 morning

 

   Two pictures from Jochen Möhr in Metchosin.  The first one rated PG.  We are greatly indebted to Dr Rob Cannings who identified the predator, and to Scott Gilmore who identified the prey!   That photograph is followed by a rather gentler one.

 

Male robber fly Laphria fernaldi (Dip.: Asilidae) and click beetle Hadromorphus sp. (Col.: Elateridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo  (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Jochen’s moths from Metchosin this morning.  (No pics.)

 

1 Nadata gibbosa – the permanent resident

4 Tyria jacobaeae

1 Udea profundalis

 

   Rosemary Jorna writes from Kemp Lake:  I walked the Galloping Goose between the Charters and Todd Creek Trestles yesterday afternoon and in that stretch I saw 2 blues ,  1 Pale Tiger Swallowtail and 3 Western Tiger Swallowtails.   Around kilometre 46 this Western Pine Elfin was so engaged with the flowers that I was able to get some good photos.  There was a 30 metre stretch of Yarrow that had 25+ fairy moths Adela septentrionella nectaring.  They let me take some interesting shots

 

Western Pine Elfin Incisalia eryphon (Lep.: Lycaenidae) Rosemary Jorna

 

Adela septentrionella (Lep.: Adelidae)  Rosemary Jorna