2020 August 4

 

   Two butterflies and a moth from Jochen Möhr in Metchosin:

 

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Oligia divesta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

  Jody Wells photographed a Painted Lady near the reservoir at Longview Farms, Wallace Drive:

 

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.:  Nymphalidae)  Jody Wells

 

   Some butterflies and a fly photographed by Aziza Cooper on Mount Washington last week.  Thanks to Dr Jeff Skevington for identification of the fly, and to David Harris for the identification of the skipper.

 

Branded Skipper Hesperia comma (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Great Arctic Oeneis nevadensis (Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Male hover fly Sericomyia chalcopyga (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

   Rick and Libby Avis came across this grisly scene along the Stamp River on Sunday.  It is the cocoon formed by the larva of an ichneumon wasp (probably subfamily Campopleginae), after eating its way out of a lepidopterous caterpillar, whose skin can be seen above it.

 

Ichneumonid cocoon (Hym.: Ichneumonidae – Campopleginae)  Rick Avis

 

   Rosemary Jorna sends pictures from Sheilds Lake of a rather pale Banana Slug, some carpenter ants, and a bumble bee identified for us by Annie Pang.

 

Carpenter ants Camponotus sp. (Hym.: Formicidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

Banana Slug Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae) Rosemary Jorna

 

 

Bombus vosnesenskii (Hym.: Apidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

Bombus vosnesenskii (Hym.: Apidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Bombus vosnesenskii (Hym.: Apidae)  Rosemary Jorna