2023 July 25

   Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed this White-faced (also called Bald-faced) Hornet at Government House on July 21:

Dolichovespula maculata  (Hym.: Vespidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Cheryl Hoyle photographed these two insects in View Royal today, July 25.

Pacific Forktail Ischnura cervula (Odo.:  Coenagrionidae)
Cheryl Hoyle

Jeremy Tatum writes:  I asked Dr Cannings: “What happens when you can’t see whether or not there are four dots?”.  Dr Cannings replied: “Seems to me it’s one of those blue female Ischnura cervula individuals with the thoracic stripes unbroken, although it’s hard to see the top of the thorax well.”

  Bee fly, probably Hemipenthes sp. (Dip.: Bombyliidae)   Cheryl Hoyle