2021 May 5

 

   Bruce Whittington sends a photograph of a blue from his Ladysmith garden yesterday.  Since it shows only the upperside, writes Jeremy Tatum, identification was a bit of a challenge, so I am grateful to Mike Yip for examining it critically and confirming Bruce’s suspicion and mine that it is a male Western Spring Azure.

 

Male Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae) Bruce Whittington

   A few dragonflies and damselflies have been seen in the past few days.  Wendy Ansell writes that she saw her first dragonfly of the season yesterday at Durrance Lake.   She got a few quick snaps of it, not, she feels good enough for posting, but good enough for the first identified dragonfly reported this year.   It was an American Emerald Cordulia shurtleffii.

 

    Rosemary Jorna photographed two snails in her yard near Kemp Lake today:

 

Monadenia fidelis (Pul.: Bradybaenidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Vespericola columbianus (Pul.: Polygyridae)  Rosemary Jorna