2025 July 7 morning
We hope to post an account of yesterday’s Butterfly Walk this evening.
Sher Falls sends a photograph of a pair of Cabbage Whites from her Nanaimo garden, nicely showing the difference between the sexes.
Male (L) and female (R) Cabbage Whites Pieris rapae
(Lep.: Pieridae)
Sher Falls
Also from her garden, a beetle, kindly identified for us by Scott Gilmore. The beetle is just taking off, and its hind (flying) wings have not yet fully unfolded.
Xestoleptura sp. (Col.: Cerambycidae) Sher Falls
Ian Cooper sends a selection of pictures taken just before dawn on the morning of July 06 by the Galloping Goose in View Royal.
Reticulate Taildropper Prophysaon andersonii (Pul.: Arionidae) Ian Cooper
Rugathodes sexpunctatus (Ara.: Theridiidae) Ian Cooper
Male Dwarf Spider Agyneta sp. (Ara.: Linyphiidae) Ian Cooper
Crane Fly (Dip.: Tipulidae) Ian Cooper
Ceratogalia gueneata (Lep.: Geometridae) Ian Cooper
Psyllobora borealis (Col.: Coccinellidae) Ian Cooper
Aziza Cooper writes: Yesterday, July 6, at Cowichan Station there were:
Western Tiger Swallowtail – 2
Pale Tiger Swallowtail – 1
Cabbage White – 8
Margined White – 2
Satyr Comma – 1
Essex Skipper – 10+
Margined White Pieris marginalis (Lep.: Pieridae) Aziza Cooper
Margined White Pieris marginalis (Lep.: Pieridae) Aziza Cooper
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