2022 November 13

    Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a Seven-spotted Ladybird Beetle from View Royal.

Seven-spotted Ladybird Coccinella septempunctata (Col.: Coccinellidae)

Cheryl Hoyle

   Val George writes:  Today, November 13, I again saw this Woolly Bear (Isabella Tiger Moth) in the corner of a window at the entrance to the nature house at Swan Lake. It’s been there for over a week – this, and the spider webs it’s accumulated during that time, suggests that this is where it’s hibernating for the winter.

 

Banded Woolly Bear (Isabella Tiger Moth) Pyrrharctia isabella (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)

Val George

 

Jeremy Tatum writes: On November 11 I wrote: Here’s a female European Winter Moth.  Has anyone seen a male yet?  –  I haven’t.   Jochen Möhr responds from Metchosin:   I think I got what you were looking for in your post to Invert Alert of Nov. 11.  It landed on my office window, and as a bonus, you are getting a picture of the underside as well.

 

Male European Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Male European Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr