2020 June 7

  The mites on yesterday’s Sexton beetle have now been identified.  See the entry for June 6 to see comments by Dr Heather Proctor.

   Rosemary Jorna sends pictures of a Red Admiral and a Crusted Root Weevil (identified by Scott Gilmore) from the Kemp Lake area, and a damselfy from Broom Hill.  It is difficult to distinguish between the Northern and Boreal Bluets from photographs.  Rosemary reports seeing the first Lorquin’s Admiral of the year on Broom Hill.  All observations June 6.

Red Admiral  Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Crusted Root Weevil, Romualdius scaber (Col.: Curculionidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Northern/Boreal Bluet Enallagma annexum/boreale (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Rosemary Jorna

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

1 Nadata gibbosa (Does it intend to die here? Is it dead already?)

1 Tyria jacobaeae

1 Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli

Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

   Ron Flower writes:  I went out to Eddy’s Storage (Stelly’s Cross Road, Central Saanich) today June 7^th to see the Field Crescents, of which I saw at least a dozen. Mostly behind the two parked pickup trucks.

Field Crescent Phyciodes pratensis (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Ron Flower

  Jeremy Tatum writes:  It is June 7, and I still haven’t seen any swallowtail!   Are other viewers finding them scarce?