2020 September 23

 

   Ian Cooper videoed this potter wasp on September 20.   Here is a still frame.  Thanks to Claudia Copley for the identification:

 

Eumenes sp. (Hym.: Vespidae)  Ian Cooper

   Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a dragonfly at Aylard Farm, East Sooke Park, September 22, identified by Dr Rob Cannings as a Paddle-tailed Darner:

 

Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Aziza Cooper

   Here’s a photograph of one of the Anise Swallowtail caterpillars on the Oenanthe sarmentosa in Bow Park, taken by Katie Turner on September 18:

 

Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Katie Turner