2020 March 27

 

   Rosemary Jorna writes from Kemp Lake:  Yesterday  30 or more of these very small flies were flying around the Huckleberry Bush in our yard. Most of them were carrying a bundle and would alight briefly before taking flight again. They were too small, quick and against the light. At first I thought mating; but now the camera is downloaded it looks more like dinner time. 

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  This is a fly of the Family Empididae.  It would need a specialist to identify it with any certainty, although I think it is probably in the eponymous genus Empis, and there is a reasonable possibility that it is Empis barbatoides.

 

Maybe Empis barbatoides (Dip.: Empididae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

Maybe Empis barbatoides (Dip.: Empididae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

   Jochen Möhr’s March 27 tally from Metchosin:

 

1 Acerra normalis

1 Egirra crucialis (picture attached)

2 Eupithecia spp. (one picture attached)

1 Eupithecia ravocostaliata/nevadata

7 Hydriomena manzanita

6 Venusia obsoleta/ pearsalli

 

 

Eupithecia annulata/ochracea (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Egira crucialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr