2024 September 4 morning

Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed this exuvia at Esquimalt Lagoon, September 2.  Amazingly, Dr Rob Cannings managed to identify it.  He writes: This is Rhionaeschna multicolor. The width and length of its labium are measurable, so there is no doubt.

Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Jeremy Tatum photographed the moth below at his Saanich apartment this morning.

Xestia xanthographa  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum