2024 June 25

   Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed this young Blue Dasher at Outerbridge Park,  June 23:

Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis  (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Marie saw these between 4 and 5 pm at Government House on June 24:

4 Western Tiger Swallowtails
2 Cabbage Whites
6 Essex Skippers
1 Lorquin’s Admiral
1 Blue-eyed Darner.

 She photographed one of the Western Tiger Swallowtails:

Western Tiger Swallowtail  Pterourus rutulus  (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Here are a few results of recent overnight photo shoots by Ian Cooper:

Hedya nubiferana  (Lep.: Tortricidae)   Ian Cooper

Protolophus niger (Opiliones:  Protolophidae)   Ian Cooper

Mosquito  (Dip.: Culicidae)  Ian Cooper

We don’t know what this is, but we presume it is an immature stage (nymph) of some bug:

Presumed nymph of a bug (Hemiptera)  Ian Cooper

Enoplognatha ovata (Ara.: Theridiidae)   Ian Cooper

An Enoplognatha ovata (Ara.: Theridiidae) has captured a Strawberry Root Weevil Otiorhynchus ovatus (Col.: Curculionidae).   Ian Cooper

Enoplognatha ovata variant with distinctive red ‘candy stripe’ markings (Ara.: Theridiidae)
Ian Cooper

Seven-spotted Ladybird – Coccinella septempunctata (Col.: Coccinellidae)   Ian Cooper

Jeremy Tatum writes:  At 5:30 this afternoon (June 25) there were two Painted Ladies and one Red Admiral at the top of Christmas Hill.

Aziza Cooper writes:  Today, June 25, at Layritz Park there were two Western Tiger Swallowtails, one Cabbage White and two Lorquin’s Admirals. At Viaduct Flats there was one Essex Skipper.

Butterflies still missing this year:    Clodius Parnassian,    Margined White,    Purplish Copper,    Grey Hairstreak,    Mylitta Crescent.