2022 August 31 evening

    Jeff Gaskin writes:  Today, August 31, Kirsten Mills just found a late Western Tiger Swallowtail in Browning Park.  This is a small park near Hillside Centre.  Jeff adds:  I’m pretty sure I saw a Black Saddlebags dragonfly on the Galloping Goose trail in Colwood on August 26.  It was seen on the trail between Aldeane Avenue or the entrance to Royal Roads University and Ocean Boulevard.  Also, at the pond at the end of Fisher’s Trail today, August 31, there were a number of Blue-eyed Darners and one or two Paddle-tailed Darners.

Ian Cooper writes: Here are a few more classic pollinators, all photographed within the last couple of weeks along the Galloping Goose trail.

Honey Bee  Apis mellifera (Hym.: Apidae) on wild spearmint.  Ian Cooper

 

 European Paper Wasp Polistes dominula (Hym.: Vespidae) on Queen Anne’s Lace.

Ian Cooper

 

Bald-faced hornet  Dolichovespula maculata (Hym.: Vespidae) on Snowberry.

   Ian Cooper

Woodland Skipper – Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae) on wild spearmint.

Ian Cooper

Megachile (possibly perihirta)  (Hym.:Megachilidae) on Lathyrus.  Ian Cooper