July 23

 

   Cheryl Hoyle sends a picture of a tachinid fly from Swan Lake, Saanich, July 20.  We are grateful to James O’Hara for identifying it as Uramya halisidotae.    The Spotted and Silver-spotted Tiger moths, now in the genus Lophocampa, were formerly in the genus Halisidota, so are presumably victims of this parasitoidal fly.

Uramya halisidotae (Dip.: Tachinidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

   Jochen Möhr reports seeing two Panthea virginarius and one Gabriola dyari at his Metchosin home yesterday.   Gordon Hart reports seeing two Sphinx sp. at his Highlands home.   Val George writes that in the last few days at least nine or ten adult Pyrausta californicalis have appeared around the mint patch where he found the caterpillar at his Oak Bay home.

   Gordon Hart sends a picture of a damselfly from Cowichan Station, July 5.  Thank you, Rob Cannings, for identifying it for us as a spreadwing, Lestes sp.

 

Spreadwing  Lestes sp. (Odo.: Lestidae)  Gordon Hart