2016 July 20

 

   Annie Pang sends a photograph of a leaf-cutting bee from Gorge Park, July 19.

 

Megachile sp. (probably perihirta) (Hym.: Megachilidae)  Annie Pang

 

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  Other than the odd Lorquin’s Admiral and Western Tiger Swallowtail that I’ve been seeing today in Colwood, I saw several Pine Whites. There were 17 that I counted at the Royal Roads University and another 9 along Goldstream Avenue right by the Royal Colwood Golf Course.

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I visited Swan Lake for about twenty minutes today, and I didn’t see any adult butterflies at all.  However, I found two tiny (3 mm, first instar) caterpillars of Lorquin’s Admiral, both on Ocean Spray. Lorquin’s Admiral spends the winter as a young caterpillar. There were two rather different geometrid moths under the lights at the front door of the Nature House – a somewhat modest Idaea dimidiata and a spectacular Pero mizon.  At 4:00 p.m. there were three butterflies at the top of Mount Tolmie.  A Western Tiger Swallowtail on the reservoir;  a pristine fresh Anise Swallowtail flying around the picnic table area, occasionally settling on the plum tree at the top of the stairs; and a Painted Lady on the roadside next to the Jeffery Pine.