2024 July 13 evening

   Ian Cooper photographed this spider along the Galloping Goose trail on July 11:

Eratigena duellica  (Ara.: Agelenidae)  Ian Cooper

   Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed this Robber Fly at Swan Lake on July 12.  It was kindly identified for us by Dr Rob Cannings.

Laphria ventralis  (Dip.: Asilidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Marie spent a short time on Mount Tolmie this afternoon, July 13, and saw:
1 Cabbage White
1 Lorquin’s Admiral
1 Pale Tiger Swallowtail
1 Western Tiger Swallowtail

Jeremy Tatum writes:  Butterflies not yet reported to Invertebrate Alert this year:  Purplish Copper, Woodland Skipper, Pine White.