2025 August 10
Gordon Hart writes from Highlands: On August 8, we had a fresh Mourning Cloak on some over-ripe yellow plums and also two Lorquin’s Admirals in pursuit of one another. On August 9, the two Lorquin’s were still here, and a Pine White which landed too high up in a tree for a photo.
Ian Cooper writes: Here is another selection from my August 9 photoshoot. All of these photos were taken in View Royal near the 9 km marker before dawn.

Limax maximus (Pul.: Limacidae) Ian Cooper

Camel Cricket Pristoceuthophilus celatus
(Orth.: Rhaphidophoridae)
Ian Cooper

Folding-door spider Antrodiaetus pacificus
(Ara. – Myg.: Antrodiaetidae)
Ian Cooper

Running crab spider Philodromus sp. (Ara.: Philodromidae)
Ian Cooper

Brown lacewing (Neu.: Hemerobiidae) Ian Cooper