2020 October 2 morning

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  A Painted Lady was near the Jeffrey Pine at the summit of Mount Tolmie, Wednesday September 30  at 4:30 p.m.

 

Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin on Thursday, October 1:  While I was puttering in the garden, a freshly ecloded Painted Lady flew up and settled on a warm rock, allowing me to go inside, wash my hands, retrieve the camera and get a shot of her with the telelens at maximum extension.  Kind of her, right?

 

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jochen Möhr

   Ian Cooper  sends photographs of small insects – challenging to identify – from the Galloping Goose Trail:

 

 

Thrips (Thysanoptera)  Ian Cooper

Thrips (Thysanoptera: probably Thripidae)

Bug (Hem:  maybe Lygaeidae or Anthocoridae)  Ian Cooper

Dirt-coloured Seed Bug Raglius alboacuminatus (Hem.:  Rhyparochromidae)

  Ian Cooper

Identified by Libby Avis.