Vertebrates
Mammals
Bat Species
Mountain Beaver
Pacific Water Shrew
Townsend’s Mole
Birds
Barn Owl
Barn Swallow
Great Blue Heron, fannini subspecies
Marbled Murrelet
American Goshawk, laingi subspecies
Short-eared Owl
Western Screech-Owl, kennicottii subspecies
Amphibians
Coastal Giant Salamander
Coastal Tailed Frog
Northern Red-legged Frog
Oregon Spotted Frog
Western Toad
Reptiles
Common Sharp-tailed Snake
Painted Turtle, Pacific Coast Population
Fish
Nooksack Dace
Salish Sucker
Invertebrates
Insects
Dun Skipper
Grappletail
Johnson’s Hairstreak
Molluscs
Olympia Oyster
Oregon Forestsnail
Plants
Non-Vascular
Poor pocket moss
Vascular
Phantom orchid
Streambank lupine
Tall bugbane
Vancouver Island beggarticks
Ecological Communities
Arbutus
Coastal Douglas-fir
Coastal Sand Ecosystems
Coastal Western Hemlock

A member of the family Lycaenidae (“Gossamer Winged” butterflies), the second largest global family of butterflies. Johnson’s Hairstreak is also referred to as “Mistletoe” Hairstreak or “Brown Mistletoe” Hairstreak, a reference to the caterpillar’s host plant, dwarf mistletoe. Johnson’s Hairstreak occurs within dwarf mistletoe-infected forests, typically characterized by low elevation, structurally diverse, old growth/mature forests. Caterpillars emit a sugary solution through a “honey gland” (dorsal nectary organ). Ants feed on the solution and in turn protect the caterpillar from predators.

This is a species at risk. To find its current at-risk designation and listing info, visit the BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer. For direction on finding additional species recovery information, visit the Species and Ecological Communities Profiles Overview webpage.

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