2025 August 20
On August 11, Gordon Hart photographed this Woodland Skipper in grave danger as it put its foot on a crab spider at his Highlands home. He also photographed a dark summer-brood Cabbage White, and a wasp, which Jeremy Tatum believes to be Vespula pensylvanica.
Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)
and Crab spider Misumena vatia (Ara.: Thomisidae)
Gordon Hart
Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae) Gordon Hart
Vespula pensylvanica (Hym.: Vespidae) Gordon Hart
Jeff Gaskin writes: Just before noon in the heat on August 12th, I saw what I’m quite sure was a Hydaspe Fritillary. I had some pretty quick but good looks at this butterfly as it headed into Gorge Park. Also, a Lorquin’s Admiral was still in Esquimalt Gorge Park.
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