2022 August 8 morning

    This bee was photographed by Aziza Cooper in Goldstream Park, August 3.  Thanks to Steven Roias for identifying it for us as a male Bombus flavifrons.

 

Male Bombus flavifrons (Hym.: Apidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

   Jeremy Tatum sends the photograph below of a moth at his Saanich apartment, August 8.

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   More photographs from yesterday’s VNHS Butterfly Walk.  The snail was from Mount Tolmie; the insects from Island View.

Cepaea nemoralis (Pul.:  Helicidae)  Gordon Hart

 

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Gordon Hart

 

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Gordon Hart

Black Saddlebags Tramea lacerata (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Gordon