2020 June 30

 

   Rosemary Jorna sends photographs of a Clodius Parnassian taken by Kate Woods on Matterhorn, Shirley, June 29.

 

Clodius Parnassian Parnassius clodius (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Kate Woods

 

Clodius Parnassian Parnassius clodius (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Kate Woods

 

   Rosemary Jorna photographed a beetle on the Matterhorn, Shirley, June 29.  The beetle had better be careful  –  I think I see a crab spider just beneath it.

 

Lepturobosca chrysocoma (Col.: Cerambycidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Annie Pang is not the only person to have a wasp nest at her home.  I had one on my balcony at the same time.  But, instead of their making a large external paper nest as Annie’s wasps did (see June 21), mine were in a hole in the structure of the building; this was rather vulgar of them.   My Strata Council called in the exterminator, and the only photographs I was able to get were of one that had been exterminated, which enabled Claudia Copley to identify it as Vespula vulgaris.   As I said, rather vulgar.

 

Vespula vulgaris  (Hym.: Vespidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Vespula vulgaris  (Hym.: Vespidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

  On June 28 we showed a photograph of a ladybird beetle from Mr E which we were not confident in naming.  Today we show a ladybird beetle photographed on Matterhorn, Shirley, by Rosemary Jorna on June 29.  Although it looks somewhat like Mr E’s June 28 beetle, this time Scott Gilmore feels confident in labelling it as Coccinella trifasciata, and I agree (Jeremy Tatum).  Although the first of the three fascia is broken, the jutting black rectangle on the pronotum is quite distinctive, and also the fascia are outlined in yellow.

 

Coccinella trifasciata (Col.: Coccinellidae) Rosemary Jorna