2019 July 15

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  At the top of Christmas Hill last night (July 14, 6:30 pm) two Painted Ladies and a Red Admiral.

   Layla Munger sends a photograph of an insect seen in the Oak Bay scented garden on July 14, saying: I think this is a wasp.  Well, it’s certainly a hymenopteran, and I think we can safely go to Suborder Apocrita, so we can call it a wasp in the very broad sense (sensu very lato), but beyond that I cannot confidently go.  Would anyone out there care to go to Family?  Please let us know.

Unknown wasp (Hymenoptera – Apocrita)  Layla Munger

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

2 Biston betularia

1 Eulithis xylina

1 Eupithecia cretaceata

1 Hesperumia latipennis

1 Hesperumia sulphuraria

3 Hormothodes hanhami

1 Idaea dimidiata

1 Malacosoma californica

1 Scopula quinquelinearia

1 Nemoria darwiniata

 

Eupithecia cretaceata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

The caterpillar of this pug moth feeds on the very poisonous flowers of Veratrum viride.

Scopula quinquelinearia (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

Idaea dimidiata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Nemoria darwiniata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr