2025 June14

2025 June 14

   Here are a few of the photographs taken by Ian Cooper along the Galloping Goose Trail late in the day on Friday (June 13) and after sunset.

Unidentified ichneumonoid  (Hym.: Ichneumonoidea)  Ian Cooper

Picture-winged Fly  Chaetopsis fulvifrons  (Dip.: Ulidiidae)  
Ian Cooper

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae) 
Ian Cooper

Unidentified bug (nymph?), possibly an aphid 
(Hem.: possibly Aphididae)   Ian Cooper
Can anyone help with this one?

Common Green Darner  Anax junius  (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Ian Cooper

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Don’t be misled by the name “Common” into thinking that this is a rather ordinary dragonfly.  Dragonflies in the genus Anax are known as “Green Darners”, and they are all large and spectacular creatures.  We get only one species in British Columbia, the one that happens to be the commonest and is hence known as the Common Green Darner.

Callobius pictus  (Ara.: Amaurobiidae)  Ian Cooper