2025 July 7 evening
Gordon Hart writes: There were ten participants on Sunday’s Butterfly Walk, starting at Mount Tolmie, where we saw several swallowtails, perhaps three Pale Tiger Swallowtails and at least one Western Tiger Swallowtail. There were about four Lorquin’s Admirals and six Cabbage Whites. Our next stop was at the McIntyre Reservoir, where we saw only a few Cabbage Whites, and many dragonflies of several species: Black Saddlebags, including a mating pair in flight, Eight-spotted Skimmer, Cardinal Meadowhawk, Western Pondhawk, Blue Dasher and several damselflies.
Our next stop was Island View Beach, where we saw about five Lorquin’s Admirals, several Cabbage Whites, and many Essex Skippers. I lost count at 26! One of the skippers was of the form “pallida”.
We also saw a Woodland Skipper, the first of the year; this species flies later in the year than the Essex Skipper.
Many individuals of a tortricid moth Acleris albicomana were seen on and around the rose bushes.
Female Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata
(Odo.: Libellulidae)
Gordon Hart
Male Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis (Odo.: Libellulidae) Gordon Hart
Male Cardinal Meadowhawk Sympetrum illotum
(Odo.: Libellulidae)
Gordon Hart
Tule Bluets Enallagma carunculatum (Odo.: Coenagrionidae) Gordon Hart
Male Eight-spotted Skimmer Libellula forensis (Odo.: Libellulidae) Gordon Hart
Male Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor
(Odo.: Aeshnidae)
Gordon Hart
Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Gordon Hart
Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola f. “pallida” (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Gordon Hart
Acleris albicomana (Lep.: Tortricidae) Gordon Hart
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