2019 October 27

 

   Layla Munger sends photographs of a spider and a bug from Beacon Hill Park, October 26.

 

Araneus (probably saevus) (Ara.: Araneidae)  Layla Munger

 

Chlorochroa sp.  (Hem.: Pentatomidae)  Layla Munger

 

   Gordon Hart writes:  On Saturday October 26 we visited Gorge Park in Esquimalt where we did not see any butterflies, but we did see a Yellow faced Bee Bombus vosnesenskii, feeding on a very early-blooming species of tall Mahonia (Oregon Grape).  We saw an unidentified large darner, probably a Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata, fly by as well. Smaller bees, including lots of honey bees, continue at home in the Highlands in this sunny weather.

 

Bombus vosnesenskii (Hym.: Apidae)  Gordon Hart

 

   Jeff Gaskin reports that Kirsten Mills saw a Cabbage White  in the North Dairy/ Richmond Avenue area yesterday, October 26.

 

  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I saw a nymphalid butterfly at Panama Flats today, October 27, but – darn it! – I couldn’t identify it, so it cannot be a contender for last butterfly of the year.

 

  Big question – is November possible?!