2024 June 26 evening

Marie O’Shaughnessy visited Mount Tolmie at 5:30 pm yesterday, June 25.  She saw:

1 Cabbage  White
2 Western Tiger Swallowtails
1 Lorquin’s Admiral
2 Red Admirals
2 Painted Ladies

Red Admiral  Vanessa atalanta  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Marie O’Shaughnessy

Here are more miscellaneous invertebrates from Ian Cooper.
* = Colquitz River Park in Saanich
# = Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal 9 km marker

#Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae)    Ian Cooper

*Very small unidentified fly (Diptera)   Ian Cooper
I see these often in Colquitz River Park. They look like miniature houseflies,
but with proportionally larger iridescent wings.

#Springtail  Orchesella cincta (Coll.: Orchesellidae)   Ian Cooper

#Crane fly – possibly Tipula paludosa (Dip.: Tipulidae)
Possibly recently emerged from its pupal state

Plant bug (Hem: Miridae)   Ian Cooper