2024 July 5 evening
Marie O’Shaughnessy counted butterflies and dragonflies yesterday, July 4, as follows:
Outerbridge Park
1 Lorquin’s Admiral
1 Western Tiger Swallowtail
1 Cabbage White
4 Essex Skippers
3 Cardinal Meadowhawks
2 Blue-eyed Darners
McIntyre reservoir
1 Painted Lady
2 Cabbage Whites
2 Western Pond Hawk, male and female
The female was busily eating a female damsel fly. A vicious predator!
7 Blue Dashers
4 Common Green Darners
4 Blue-eyed Darners
6 Eight-spotted Skimmers
2 Variegated Meadowhawks
Many damselflies mating
Mount Tolmie
1 Western Tiger Swallowtail
2 Lorquin’s Admirals
2 Painted Ladies
1 Cabbage White
1 Red Admiral
Male Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata (Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy
Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata (Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy
Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata with damselfly prey (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy
Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata (Odo.: Libellulidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy
Variegated Meadowhawk Sympetrum corruptum (Odo.: Libellulidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy
Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy
The moth below was photographed by Jochen Möhr in Metchosin this morning.
Eulithis xylina (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr