2022 July 31

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  From time to time I make mistakes, large or small, or one sort or another, in the Invert Alert postings.  I am sure some viewers must notice them.  Please, if you spot a mistake of any sort, please do let me know:  jtatum at uvic dot ca     I shall not be in the least annoyed.  Quite the opposite, I shall be exceedingly grateful.   It is a very easy matter for me to make corrections.

    Barb McGrenere writes:  Yesterday morning, Mike and I walked up Observatory Hill.  We saw 1 Western Tiger Swallowtail, 1 Cabbage White, 1 tattered Painted Lady nectaring on purple flowers in the garden area in front of the main office building, and 1 Lorquin’s Admiral.

Aziza Cooper sends photographs of a butterfly and a bee from Swan Lake today.

Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus (Lep.: Papilionidae) Aziza Cooper

Bombus fervidus (Hym.: Apidae)  Aziza Cooper

         Steven Roias writes:  The bee is Bombus fervidus californicus. According to recent genetic research B. californicus and B. fervidus are the same species, despite morphological differences. Because the western type looks so different, I refer to them as California Bumblebee, but note that they are still B. fervidus.

Bruce Whittington sends a photograph of a female Blue-eyed Darner from Ladysmith.  We thank Dr Rob Cannings for the identification.

 

Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Bruce Whittington