2022 August 15 evening

    Ron Flower sends photographs of dragonflies and a butterfly from Goldstream Park today.  Most of the dragonfly photographs we see on this site are from either Aeshnidae or Libellulidae.  It is nice to be reminded, by the Pacific Spiketail, that there are other dragonfly Families!

Pacific Spiketail Cordulegaster dorsalis (Odo.: Cordulegastridae) Ron Flower

Cardinal Meadowhawks Sympetrum illotum (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Ron Flower

Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Ron Flower

Pine White Neophasia menapia (Lep.: Pieridae)  Ron Flower

 

Jeremy Tatum shows a young hawk moth caterpillar found on Populus at Rithet’s Bog, August 15.

 

Smerinthus ophthalmica (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Jeremy Tatum