2106 July 15

   Annie Pang sends some pictures from Gorge Park.

Osmia lignaria (Hym.: Megachilidae)  Annie Pang

Hover fly (Dip.: Syrphidae)    Annie Pang

Autographa californica (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Annie Pang

Halictus rubicundus (Hym.:  Halictidae)   Annie Pang

   Rosemary Jorna sends photographs from the Kemp Lake area.  Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying the beetle as Leptura obliterata.  The bug is Philaenus spumaria, a spittle bug. The nymph of this bug makes the little masses of frothy spittle that we see on low-down vegetation.

Leptura obliterata (Col.: Cerambycidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Philaenus spumarius (Hem.: Cercopidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Aziza Cooper writes:  In Uplands Park near the corner of Dorset and Midland Roads on Wednesday, July 13, I saw my first Woodland Skipper of the year.

And Jeremy Tatum saw his first Pine White of the year at UVic, July 15.

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides  (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper