2025 April 28 morning
Ian Cooper writes: These pictures are from photo shoots on April 23, 25 and 26, 2025 at:
# Galloping Goose Trail, near the 9 km marker, View Royal
@ Galloping Goose Trail, between Grange Road & Burnside Road West in Saanich
^ E&N Trail near Mary Street & Esquimalt Road in Vic West
# Crane Fly (Dip.: Tipulidae) Ian Cooper
^ Seven-spotted Lady Beetle Coccinella septempunctata
(Col.: Coccinellidae)
Ian Cooper
@ Asian Lady Beetle – Harmonia axyridis (Col.: Coccinellidae)
Ian Cooper
@Asian Lady Beetle – Harmonia axyridis (Col.: Coccinellidae)
Ian Cooper
@ Broom Seed Beetle Bruchidius villosus
(Col.: Chrysomelidae- Bruchinae)
Ian Cooper
# Female Forest Spider – Pimoa altioculata (Ara: Pimoidae)
Ian Cooper
Aziza Cooper photographed this moth at the Swan Lake Nature House, April 27. Thanks to Libby Avis, who identified it as a colour form of Sabulodes aegrotata.
Sabulodes aegrotata (Lep.: Geometridae) Aziza Cooper
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