2019 July 1 evening

 

   Gordon Hart sends pictures of bluets taken on June 26.  We are grateful to Dr Rob Cannings for the identifications.  The damselflies in the second photograph could be either Boreal Bluet Enallagma boreale or the very similar Northern Bluet E. annexum.

Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Gordon Hart

Either Boreal Bluets Enallagma boreale or Northern Bluets E. annexum

(Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Gordon Hart

 

   Jeremy Tatum sends a picture of a small moth from Goldstream Park, kindly identified by Dr Jason Dombrowskie as a female Archips rosana:

Female Archips rosana (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   Jeremy also sends photographs of two caterpillars – the first from Royal Roads University, the second from Gowlland Tod Park.

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Jeremy Tatum

Nycteola cinereana (Lep.: Nolidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Green Pug (Pic attached)

1 Drepana arcuata

2 Lacinipolia strigicollis

7 Nadata gibbosa

1 Sicya crocearia

 

Green Pug Pasiphila rectangulata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Lacinipolia strigicollis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Sicya crocearia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Annie Pang sends a beauty from Gorge Park:

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Annie Pang

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I visited the Swan Lake nature house today, and I photographed the two moths shown below.  Also present there were Campaea perlata and Idaea dimidiata, but out of camera reach.

Clemensia albata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae – Lithoniini)  Jeremy Tatum

Amblyptilia pica (Lep.: Pterophoridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   At 6:30  pm I visited Highrock Park to see if there were any hill-topping butterflies there.  There was a Western Tiger Swallowtail at the foot of the hill.  At the top there were just two Painted Ladies – though it was rather windy, so not many butterflies would be expected.