2015 August 2

   Aziza Cooper writes:  Today seven people took a walk to the Kinsol Trestle to look for butterflies. We all agreed that in the right season, it could be an excellent place, but today we saw only four species:

Woodland Skipper – 10

Cabbage White – 3

Lorquin’s Admiral – 1

comma sp. – 1

The trestle is very impressive, towering above the river. It was a hot day for a walk. We saw many dragonflies and a few other interesting insects. I’ll look forward to returning there sometime next spring.

Aziza

   Here is a dragonfly and a wasp that Aziza photographed during the butterfly walk.  She also photographed an interesting fly – and we are working on its identification before we post it!

Striped Meadowhawk Sympetrum pallipes (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Aziza Cooper

European Paper Wasp Polistes dominula (Hym.: Vespidae)  Aziza Cooper

   Gordon Hart writes:  Here at home in the Highlands on August 1 the same butterflies as earlier in the week are still present , including the Cedar Hairstreak. I saw what I think was a very large Dobsonfly (Corydalinae) , but it landed out of range so I was unable to get a picture. I did manage a picture of a very nice Blue Dasher, Pachydiplax longipennis, with green eyes.

Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Gordon Hart

   Aziza Cooper photographed a brown Yellow Woolly Bear  at Tod Creek Flats, July 31.

Yellow Woolly Bear Spilosoma virginica (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Aziza Cooper

   Annie Pang photographed a White-faced Hornet (also known as Bald-faced Hornet) on August 1. 

   Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of an unknown noctuid caterpillar feeding on roses in a garden near Kemp Lake. August 1.

Unknown caterpillar (Lep: Noctuidae)  Rosemary Jorna