2015 August 08

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I went to the top of Christmas Hill at 7:00 pm on August 7 to see if there were any hill-topping nymphalids.  I scored 2 Red Admirals and a Painted Lady.

   Val George writes:  Butterflies at Island View Beach and Saanichton (Cordova) Spit yesterday, August 7:  5 Coenonympha tullia (Ringlet or Large Heath), 3 Purplish Coppers, 1 Essex Skipper, c. two dozen Woodland Skippers (but no Branded Skippers).

  Gerry and Wendy Ansell write: This afternoon (Friday August 7) we went to Cordova Spit to look for the Western Branded Skippers.  I found only 1 (that I was able to photograph) but quite a few Woodland Skippers.  We also got 1 female Purplish Copper and a Cabbage White.  I also saw the attached grasshopper, but I’m not sure what it is.  Any ideas?  It was quite small.  As you can see it fits in the centre of a flower.

Female Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Val George

Large Heath (“Ringlet”) Coenonympha tullia

(Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae)

Val George

Grasshopper (Orth.: Acrididae)  Wendy Ansell

   Aziza Cooper writes:  The bee is from the blackberries at Haliburton Farm yesterday (August 7). I’ve never seen a bee with pink pollen before.  [Can someone out there identify it for us?  The bee or the pollen will do!]

   The Red Admiral was on Moss Rock on Thursday evening.

Bee Bombus sp. (Hym.: Apidae)   Aziza Cooper

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Aziza Cooper