2024 August 4

Ian Cooper sends some invertebrate photographs. Most were taken along the Galloping Goose Trail in View Royal near the 9 km marker on Aug 2nd. The banded snail was spotted on July 31st 2024.

Unidentified crane flies in copula (Dip.: Tipulidae)    Ian Cooper

Unidentified male crane fly  (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Ian Cooper
If anyone can identify these crane flies for us, please do so.  Write to tatumjb352 at gmail dot com

Western Black Carpenter Ant – Camponotus modoc (Hym.: Formicidae) Ian Cooper

Western Black Carpenter Ant  Camponotus modoc (Hym.: Formicidae)
hauling the carcass of a small hymenopterous insect
Ian Cooper

Banded Garden Snail – Cepaea nemoralis (Pul.: Helicidae)  Ian Cooper

Slug, Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae)  Ian Cooper

Five people attended the August Butterfly Walk today, August 4. We saw five species of butterflies:

Cabbage White – 13
Woodland Skipper – 13
Lorquin’s Admiral – 3
Painted Lady – 1
California Ringlet – 1

These were distributed as follows:

Mount Tolmie: 
Cabbage White – 1

McIntyre Reservoir:
Cabbage White – 9
Painted Lady – 1
Lorquin’s Admiral – 1
Woodland Skipper – 12

Island View Beach:
Cabbage White – 3
Lorquin’s Admiral – 2
Woodland Skipper – 8
California Ringlet – 1
Swallowtail sp. – 1  (Possibly an Anise Swallowtail)

Some photographs obtained during the Walk will be shown tomorrow (August 5).