2024 June 10 evening

   Gordon Hart writes from his Highlands home:  There were Cedar Hairstreaks on Stonecrop (Sedum spathulifolium) , and today on the white flat flower umbels of a Viburnum mariesii , there were two Cedar Hairstreaks and two Western Spring Azures, along with a small bee.

Jeremy Tatum asks:  Is there someone out there who can identify the bee?

Unknown bee (Hym.:  Apidae?)  Gordon Hart

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo  (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Gordon Hart

       Aziza Cooper writes:  Yesterday, June 9, at Swan Lake there was a green dragonfly near the Nature House. A Western Tiger Swallowtail was there too.

At Boas Road near Spectacle Lake, there were two Western Spring Azures, two blue species, one Pale Tiger Swallowtail and one Cedar Hairstreak. The clearcut is very overgrown now, compared with my last visit  in 2017.

At Goldstream Heights, from the end of Olympic Road to the powerline, there were five Cedar Hairstreaks, 20+ Adela, and three Blue sp.

At the railroad tracks near Goldstream campground, there were six Cedar Hairstreaks, one comma, two blue sp., and one Western Spring Azure.

Cedar Hairstreak  Callophrys gryneus  (Lep.:  Lycaenidae)   Aziza Cooper

Cedar Hairstreak  Callophrys gryneus  (Lep.:  Lycaenidae)   Aziza Cooper

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo  (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper

Female Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata  (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Aziza Cooper

Adela septentrionella  (Lep.:  Adelidae)   Aziza Cooper

Worker Bombus vancouverensis  (Hym.: Apidae)  Aziza Cooper
Kindly identified for us by Steven Roias

Golden Paper Wasp Polistes aurifer  (Hym.: Vespidae)  Aziza Cooper

Jeff Gaskin writes:   Today, June 10, Kirsten Mills and I saw one Cedar Hairstreak, and two Pale Tiger Swallowtails across the road from the Francis/King Park nature house.  Kirsten also saw a Lorquin’s Admiral nearby.    An Eight-spotted Skimmer and still a few Western Spring Azures were along the Prospect Lake Road powerline.  California Darners were also present.

Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed this Sheep Moth caterpillar in Uplands Park.  Viewers are reminded that this caterpillar can cause an urticating rash if handled.

Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina  (Lep: Saturniidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy