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Photos from gravel-pit 32km north of Thompson on 2004jul21:

- we visited that gravel-pit after hearing reports of ShowyLadyslippers being found there, well north of their "known" range - but we found them not.

Photos from across the road from that gravel-pit on 2004jul21:

- that sandpiper-like bird seemed very upset by my presence; my Peterson's shows no bird which, in breeding-season, looks like that, and which nests in this region.

Photos from near that gravel-pit on 2004jul21:

Photos from near GrandRapids on 2004jul21:

Photos from north of Gypsumville on 2004jul22:

- D Ames thought that green fly or wasp on Yarrow and Camas was possibly a Tiphiidae wasp;
- Bob Lamb and Pat MacKay have identified it as a syrphid (hover-fly or bee-fly), possibly genus Microdon. This group has larvae that live in ant colonies, and the adults feed on pollen and nectar. (If a wasp, it may be thinking of predating aphids; if one of the hoverflies whose larvae feed on aphids it may be thinking of laying an egg in the aphid colony; the presence of pollen on its body suggests it is feeding on pollen and nectar.)
- Lamb and MacKay also say the aphids may be a species in the genus Uroleucon, although these usually feed on composites. [personal communication 05April]

Photos from south of Gypsumville on 2004jul22:

Photos from Arden+Lundar (town-icons) on 2004jul22: