By the end of June the warm weather finally arrived at Bee Creek. Although the number of trout recorded remain low, the creek looks healthy with temperatures around 13 degrees Celcius. In addition, a diversity of insects were visible.

Access to the sites in some cases remains a challenge, especially site 7 which was heavily overgrown with blackberries, holly, salmonberries and trees which fell over the winter.

The site is almost invisible and we had to cut away branches in order to set traps. Fortunately there are still trout in evidence including a small 50 milimetre juvenile which was measured.

We were joined by Duncan this month who is studying Biology and is set to graduate next year. He recently was involved with a multi day trapping effort by ELSI to capture Asian Green Crab in the Esquimalt Lagoon and his experience was very helpful in identifying Bee Creek invertebrates.

This Smoothhead Sculpin was retrieved and released at site 4.

Artedius lateralis, also known as the smoothhead sculpin or round-nosed sculpin, [2] is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae (Wikipedia)