2019 July 11

 

   We have an identification for another of the unknown insects on the July 9 posting – Lincoln Best and Annie Pang agree that Gordon Hart’s bee is Bombus flavifrons:

 

Bombus flavifrons (Hym.: Apidae) Gordon Hart

Gordon has another photograph of it:

 

Bombus flavifrons (Hym.: Apidae) Gordon Hart

 

 

  Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of two Rhododendron Leafhoppers from her View Royal garden, July 10:

 

Rhododendron Leafhopper Graphocephala fennahi (Hem.: Cicadellidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

   She also sends a photograph of a Painted Lady caterpillar from the Holland Polint Shoreline Trail, July 10.

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin yesterday morning:

 

1 Biston betularia

1 Cabera erythemaria

1 Campaea perlata

1 Clemensia umbrata

1 Drepana arcuata

1 Edonia commortalis

3 Eulithis xylina

1 Gabriola dyari

2 Hesperumia latipennis

2 Hesperumia sulphuraria

6 Homorthodes hanhami

6 Nadata gibbosa

2 Nemora darwiniata

2 Pero mizon

1 Scopula quinquelinearia

 

Scopula quinquelinearia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Cabera erythemaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Clemensia umbrata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae – Lithosiini) Jochen Möhr

 

   Libby Avis tells us that Clemensia for our area has had a name change to C. umbrata – the old species albata was split into two in 2018. C. albata is now limited to the north east of North America. 

 

Campaea perlata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Eudonia sp. (probably commortalis)

(Lep.: Crambidae)

Jochen Möhr

 

Pero mizon (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Hesperumia latipennis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  One of the needles on the Douglas Fir twig below is actually a geometrid caterpillar.  We don’t (yet) know the species, though it is probably a pug (Eupithecia sp.).

Geometrid caterpillar  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum