Jeremy Tatum writes: I have received the notice below, which I thought I’d post on Invert Alert. We have had many truly excellent photographs on this site, and I’d encourage viewers to have a go. If you have already posted a good photo on Invert Alert, you don’t of course have to ask permission from Invert to submit it to the “insect picture challenge”. Your photos are your photos, so go ahead.
Sent: June 2, 2020 5:16 AM
To: Cannings, Rob RBCM:EX; Karen Needham (needham@zoology.ubc.ca); Gibson, Joel RBCM:EX; Macinnis, Wesley RBCM:EX; Jeremy Tatum
Subject: FW: National Insect Appreciation Day – promotion
For the Twitterverse and any other promotional channels you know about!
From: Étienne Normandin [mailto:etienne.normandin@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 8:42 AM
To: Copley, Claudia RBCM:EX
Subject: National Insect Appreciation Day – promotion
Hi Claudia,
June 8th is coming fast, this year we focus on the “insect picture challenge” to promote NAIAD. Would it be possible for you to share the information and the material to the people in charge of the newsletter or the communications at the ESBC?
It would be great if your student committee could promote this also. We want as much people as we can to participate in the insect picture challenge this year.
NANAID2020_informations.pdf
NANAID2020_informations.docx
June 1
2020 June 1
Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:
1 Nadata gibbosa – still the same although in different location
1 Tyria jacobaeae
2 Xanthorhoe defensaria
Also, Jochen saw a Western Tiger Swallowtail in his garden, and an Anise Swallowtail on his way between Metchosin and Victoria.
Jeremy Tatum writes: I am envious! It is June, and I still have not seen any swallowtail.
In the afternoon, he noted scores of Adela septentrionella. He took several photographs of these (of which one is reproduced below), and of a female Western Spring Azure.
Adela septentrionella (Lep.: Adelidae) Jochen Möhr
Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae) Jochen Möhr
Val George writes: This afternoon, June 1, a short walk through suitable habitat at Island View Beach produced at least fifteen Ringlets. Attached is a photo of one of them.
Ringlet Coenonympha tullia (Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae) Val George
Jeremy Tatum writes: Yes, I saw some there, too, as well as a Purplish Copper and a Red Admiral.
A few more Ringlets in Layritz Park, although the grass beat me back before I could attempt to count them. Also in the evening, still three rather worn but still active Painted Ladies on top of Mount Tolmie.
Rosemary Jorna writes: For the record I saw 2 Western Spring Azure butterflies near Kemp Lake this morning. The good news is my sister’s garden in the Kemp Lake area has a number of swallowtails. I saw at least 2 Western Tiger Swallowtails and 5 Pale Tiger Swallowtails.
Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus (Lep.: Papilionidae) Rosemary Jorna
Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon (Lep.: Papilionidae) Rosemary Jorna
May 31 afternoon
2020 May 31 afternoon
Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:
1 Hydriomena marinata
1 Lacinipolia sp.
1 Nadata gibbosa (same individual as last four days)
1 Probole sp.
Probole alienaria/amicaria. (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
Lacinipolia sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr
Hydriomena marinata/californiata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
May 31 morning
2020 May 31 morning
Scott Gilmore sends a photograph of a Tebenna sp. from Lantzville. This is from the family Choreutidae, only the third representative so far from this family on Invert Alert. Libby Avis writes that it is most probably Tebenna onustana, though she cannot be 100 percent certain of the species.
Tebenna sp (probably T. onustana) (Lep.: Choreutidae) Scott Gilmore
Tebenna sp (probably T. onustana) (Lep.: Choreutidae) Scott Gilmore
Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of Noctua pronuba, from Victoria:
Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum
May 30 evening
2020 May 30 evening
A miscellany from Mr E. First, a beetle that, at first sight, looks quite similar to either of two beetles photographed earlier this month : Dichelotaurus sp. (Cantharidae), May 5, by Rosemary Jorna, and Grammoptera molybdica (Cerambycidae), May 17, by Mr E. Jeremy Tatum writes: I tried to decide which of the two is today’s beetle. I was quite wrong! Scott Gilmore tells us that it is another beetle from another Family! It is Plateumaris sp., from Family Chrysomelidae, Subfamily Donaciinae – Aquatic Leaf Beetles.
Plateumaris sp. (Col.: Chrysomelidae – Donaciinae) Mr E
We are grateful to Scott also for identifying a weevil photographed by Mr E, as the Obscure Root Weevil. Here “Obscure” doesn’t mean we don’t know quite what it is – “Obscure” is its official name!
Obscure Root Weevil Sciopithes obscurus (Col.: Curculionidae) Mr E
Me E also photographed this crane fly (not the usual European one we see all too often).
Phoroctenia vittata (Dip.: Tipulidae) Mr E
Phoroctenia vittata (Dip.: Tipulidae) Mr E
Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:
1 Eupithecia sp.
1 Nadata gibbosa
1 Pero sp.
5 Tyria jacobaeae
1 Udea profundalis
The genus Pero has five species in British Columbia, all of them variable, with the variation within each species at least as much as the variation between them, thus making identification from a photograph difficult. We’ll leave this one as Pero sp.
Pero sp. (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr