Not sure if this identification is correct but I'm very curious as to what this could be
This record is the basis of my natural species note "First record in British Columbia for the dandelion gall wasp, Phanacis taraxaci (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae, Phanacidini)" Specimen 31. https://doi.org/10.56222/28166531.2024.31
Reared from galls collected by @rebeccareaderlee in obs https://inaturalist.ca/observations/186204927
Observation date = collection date.
Reared in unheated shed in Victoria. Adults emerged in mid-late June 2024.
@mileszhang
Sighted in Point Pleasant Park near the Halifax container pier. Speculate that this butterfly came across the Atlantic on a container ship.
Bug is rather worn and beaten up. Found a week after we located a Dun Skipper in same area. However, note orange along leading edge of FW. Duplicates of the image were uploaded; 2nd photo is with greater contrast to highlight VHW pattern.
With an @earley_bird for scale. Vaseux Cliffs Provincial Park, BC, Canada
CSCF ID: 837746
Museum ID: GBIFCH00618580
COI sequenced
BOLD process ID: VALM028-23
BOLD sample ID: 2020.09.06 Drosophila hydei
Ладно, я провела три часа, мучая его труп, не могу сказать, что это мне сильно много дало, единственный найденный ключ - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302423527_Chapter_3_Key_to_species
See also https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/183133471. South Okanagan Grasslands Protected Area, above Osoyoos West Bench, BC, Canada
South Okanagan Grasslands Protected Area, above Osoyoos West Bench, BC, Canada
C. hecla?
spécimen: CBEL005123
Please help me identify this animal I believe to be a cougar. Pictures were caught in front of my house on my security camera at 3:39 am. I have video as well (see link below). I uploaded some prints of tracks in my yard but I am not an expert so I don't know if these are from this or another animal. These are only a couple of the pictures of tracks taken. I believe he was in my backyard as well as the front based on potential tracks as well as my dog's reaction to scents in the back yard in the morning. It looked like he walked down the driveway on hard ice but these prints could belong to him.
I have uploaded video to utube for viewing on this link: https://youtu.be/XxQEEh-49EM
Besides the color, the elytra also seem not to be functioning properly with the wings not folded right. It didn’t seem able to fly.
Some type of gall on what I believe to be lewis’s mock orange
Insane... thousands of caterpillars on this nettle patch. Every black spot on the zoomed out photo is a caterpillar
@norbertkondla @steveansell not entirely sure this is an Oreas as the underwing just doesn't look right to me?? with ALL my lack of experience Found at a wet area along the road - probably a little spring
Norbert Kondla says this is a nice melanic aberration. From elevation of 1380 up to 1460 - about a 2 km stretch there were three areas where the total of Hoffmann's was at least 100 butterflies
I think this is correct. Size was certainly correct and I saw several other fresh specimens of this species. Still, this is a very strange colour "aberration", melanistic on the dorsum and different on the underside. I do wonder whether anyone has seen anything similar.
@rcavasin @rosslayberry @johnklymko
Grassland (presumably seasonal ranchland?) without any shrubs. Seen flying in association with areas with Eriogonum heracleoides.
C. sheridanii has been reported from the Princeton area since early April. Now that the calendar has switched to May, I guess C. affinis is also a possibility, but the spring weather has been extremely cool this year, so the flight seasons are likely behind average, not ahead.
Ludicrous record but makes sense given the past 11C weather. Snowy as hell and flew out in front of @kaiden and I. Habitat pic and field sketch. Brown body with pale yellow outer wings, nothing else it could have been. Chased to get a photo but we were unsuccessful.
@aiva @thyggen thanks for the memo about incidentals / field sketches, I hope you’re proud of yourselves
gall on Philadelphus lewisii
@earley_bird
Approx 6 mm in length .. at Alan Brooks Nature Centre .. Vernon BC
ID for the robber fly's catch?
Boothman's Oxbow Provincial Park, Grand Forks, BC
Synanthedon bibionipennis (Strawberry crown moth) a possible id.
Given how dark this and others seen in area were (at least 4 individuals) I am presuming that Freija Fritillary can be discounted but would like some feedback!
Maybe an Old world Swallowtail? It is smaller than the ones I usually see.
Mating pair found on spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe). See related observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/103055260
clear wing moth associated with Lupinus sericeus.
Don’t know how it came to be there.