2023 July 23

   Jeremy Tatum writes: The last of my current butterfly chrysalides ecloded today – a beautiful Mourning Cloak, which I released in Mount View Park off Carey Road.

While in Parksville recently, Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed the grasshopper below in the same place where she photographed a Sand Wasp (see July 22).   James Miskelly writes:  The grasshopper is a Trimerotropis species. If in the same habitat as Bembix then T. pallidipennis would be a good guess.

 Trimerotropis (probably pallidipennis)  (Orth.: Acrididae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Gordon Hart photographed this sand wasp at Maber Flats on July 14:

Bembix (probably americana) (Hym.: Crabronidae)  Gordon Hart

Val George photographed this moth at his Oak Bay home, July 22:

Clemensia umbrata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae – Lithosiini)
Val George

Simon Côte photographed these three insects at Sooke River Road, July 21.  We are grateful to Scott Gilmore for the identification of the beetle.

                Bee fly (Dip.: Bombyliidae) Simon Côte

Leaf-cutter bee (Hym.: Megachilidae)  Simon Côte

Jochen Möhr photographed these two moths at Metchosin, July 22.

Sicya macularia/crocearia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Idaea dimidiata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr