2025 June 4
Sher Falls writes: I’m curious to know what these little insects are. I see them every spring, always swarms of them surrounding Monkey Flowers.
Unknown flies (Dip.) Sher Falls
Jeremy Tatum responds: I’m afraid I don’t know, other than that they are flies (Order Diptera). If any viewer has any ideas, do please let us know.
Ian Cooper photographed this bee on a footpath behind St. Anne’s Academy, on June 01 2025.
Cellophane Bee Colletes sp. (Hym.: Colletidae) Ian Cooper
Gordon Hart writes from the Highlands: There was lots of activity yesterday here (Tuesday June 3). There were at least four Pale Tiger Swallowtails and one Western Tiger Swallowtail on the rhododendron flowers, plus a worn Green Comma nearby. There was also a Lorquin’s Admiral, our first this year for here. There were many bees and a few dragonflies. Here is one of them. Thanks for Dr Rob Cannings for the identification.
California Darner Rhionaeschna californica (Odo.: Aeshnidae) Gordon Hart
Invert Sightings 