2018 May 20 evening

 

   Andrew Simon and Scott and Sable Gilmore, while conducting a mini bioblitz on Galiano Island yesterday, came across two snakeflies.  We are grateful to Chris Ratzlaff of the Spencer Entomological Museum for identifying them as Agulla assimilis.  Dr Ratzlaff remarks: “The pale scape (instead of black) and the long pterostigma are key characteristics of this species. Second most common in BC (first is adnixa)”

The one with the long ovipositor is a female.   The other is a male.

 

Male snakefly Agulla assimilis (Raph.:  Raphidiidae)  Andrew Simon

Female snakefly Agulla assimilis (Raph.:  Raphidiidae)  Andrew Simon

Female snakefly Agulla assimilis (Raph.:  Raphidiidae)  Andrew Simon

 

Female snakefly

 Agulla assimilis (Raph.:  Raphidiidae)

  Andrew Simon

    Jeremy Tatum writes:   Today, at Munn  Road, Bill Savale and I saw our first Lorquin’s Admiral of the year.

Also there were a few Moss’s Elfins and Cedar Hairstreaks.

 

More in the queue for tomorrow…