2020 April 11 morning

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from  Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Egira perlubens

1 Eupithecia graefii 

6 Hydriomena manzanita

1 Lithophane innominata 

1 Phyllodesma americana (same as yesterday)

1 Spodolepis danbyi (same as yesterday)  

5 Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli

 

Jochen writes that he sees an Orangetip  butterfly every day.

 

Egira perlubens (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

   Gordon Hart sends a photograph of Eupithecia graefii from his Highlands home.

 

Eupithecia graefii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

   Thanks to Libby Avis for help with identifying these and indeed most of the moths on this site!

 

Mr E sends pictures of a small fly found in Saanich, April 10:

 

Clusia (probably occidentalis)  (Dip.: Clusiidae)  Mr E

Clusia (probably occidentalis)  (Dip.: Clusiidae)  Mr E

Mr E also sends a photograph of a tachinid fly, April 5, Saanich.

 

Tachinid fly (Dip.: Tachinidae)  Mr E

   Mr E sends photographs of some small beetles found on on the spadix of the Skunk Cabbage Lysichiton americanus in Saanich April 10.   Charlene Wood writes:  These are great little rove beetles – Pelecomalium sp.  These beetles are known to pollinate skunk cabbage – I’ve collected many from this plant on Galiano Island.

 

Pelecomalium sp.  (Col.: Staphylinidae)  Mr E

Pelecomalium sp.  (Col.: Staphylinidae)  Mr E