2024 July 20 morning

Val George writes:  A few days ago, you commented that Margined White was one of the butterfly species that had not yet this year been reported to the Alert. Yesterday, July 19, I walked the old railway track at Cowichan Station and saw at least four. The only photo I could get was of this one that looked as though it had had a serious run-in with a bird or some other predator.

Margined White Pieris marginalis  (Lep.: Pieridae)   Val George

Here are some recent photographs by Ian Cooper in View Royal and Vic West:

Large Yellow Underwing  Noctua pronuba  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Ian Cooper

Large Yellow Underwing  Noctua pronuba  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Ian Cooper

Large Yellow Underwing  Noctua pronuba  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Ian Cooper

Lesser Yellow Underwing  Noctua comes (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Ian Cooper

Honey Bee Apis mellifera  (Hym.: Apidae)  Ian Cooper

Flower Fly – Myathropa florea (Dip.: Syrphidae)
and an Asian Lady Beetle, Harmonia axyridis (Col.: Coccinellidae)
Ian Cooper

The Asian Lady Beetle is the same species as the two shown on July 18 evening,