2018 September 27

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Today I saw a Cabbage White from the window of my Saanich apartment buidling, and yesterday I saw one in Uplands Park, where I had gone in an unsuccessful attempt to relocate Dave Fraser’s Monarch (see yesterday’s posting).

 

  Scott Gilmore writes from Upper Lantzville:   I had three species of Orbweaver within 50cm of each other in my back yard yesterday.  The Cross Orbweaver, Araneus diadematus, the Banded Garden Spider, Argiope trifasciata, and the Shamrock Orbweaver, Araneus trifolium. 

 

Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae)  Scott Gilmore

 

Argiope trifasciata (Ara.: Araneidae) Scott Gilmore

 

Araneus trifolium (Ara.: Araneidae)   Scott Gilmore