2018 May 11

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  On a very brief visit to Little Saanich Mountain today, I saw two Propertius Duskywings and a Western Brown Elfin.  And at noon a Western Tiger Swallowtail flew over the Mount Tolmie reservoir.

 

   Here is a Large Yellow Underwing, which emerged this morning from a pupa dug up from Jochen Moehr’s Metchosin garden.  I released it on Mount Tolmie, from where, doubtless, it will fly into someone else’s garden to lay eggs.  Unfortunately it did not allow me to photograph its hindwings.

 

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)   Jeremy Tatum

 

   Nathan Fisk sends pictures of a dragonfly from Fort Rodd Hill and a ladybird larva from Sidney Island Spit.

 

California Darner Rhionaeschna californica (Odo.: Aeshnidae)   Nathan Fisk

 

 

Larva of Seven-spotted Ladybird Coccinella septempunctata (Col.: Coccinellidae)  Nathan Fisk

 

 

 

   More photos in the queue, but they will have to wait until tomorrow.     I’m getting ready to go to Libby’s moth talk this evening.   See May 8 for details.  Jeremy Tatum