2016 August 5

   Val George writes:   Yesterday morning, August 4, I had a Grey Hairstreak in my garden in Oak Bay.

Jeremy Tatum writes:  Yesterday evening there were two Red Admirals flying around the top of Mount Tolmie, and today I saw a Western Tiger Swallowtail and a Common Green Darner in Uplands Park.

Is anyone seeing any Pine Whites?   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I may have briefly seen about two this year, but that is all.  Let us know if you are seeing any of this usually common July/August species.

Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a grasshopper taken in Metchosin, today, August 5.  Claudia Copley writes:  This is hard – it would help to see the lower hind leg colour and the hind wing.  I am certain about the tribe (Trimerotropini) and am leaning toward Carolina Grasshopper Dissosteira carolina.

Probably Carolina Grasshopper  Dissosteira carolina (Orth.: Acrididae)