July 12

 

   Marie O’Shaughnessy sends a photograph of a pair of Blue-eyed Darners mating at Swan Lake yesterday.

Blue-eyed Darners Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

   Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a jumping spider from View Royal, July 11.

Phidippus johnsoni (Ara.: Salticidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

    More moths from Metchosin.   Photographed by Jochen Möhr.    Identified by …  Jochen Möhr.

Drepana arcuata (Lep.: Drepanidae – Drepaninae)  Jochen Möhr

Hesperumia sulphuraria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Perizoma costiguttata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Nothing on Mount Tolmie reservoir last night (7:00 pm July 11), but two Painted Ladies near the Jeffery Pine.