2020 April 22

 

   Mr E sends photographs of some miscellaneous creatures from around Elk Lake.

 

Not identified at press time. Suggestions, anyone?  Believed to be an aphidid.   Mr E

   For the spider below, Mr E tentatively identified it correctly as Callobius sp., so we are glad to have Robb Bennett’s confirmation.  Dr Bennett writes:  One of our two local common woodland amaurobiids – Callobius severus.  Very slight possibility it’s Callobius pictus but I think severus is correct. They are one of several spider species that I commonly find in my firewood pile.  And their tangly matted webs are often a feature of old Douglas-fir bark.

Callobius severus (Ara.: Amaurobiidae)  Mr E

     Mr E also suggested Epuraea for the beetle below, so we are delighted to have confirmation of this from Scott Gilmore.

Epuraea sp. (Col.: Nitidulidae)  Mr E

Not identified at press time. Believed to be a nymph of a bug. Suggestions, anyone?

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Egira simplex

1 Egira rubrica

1 Eupithecia sp.

1 Eupithecia graefii

1 Feralia comstocki

4 Hydriomena manzanita 

1 Melanolophia imitata

2 Orthosia transparens

2 Perizoma curvilinea

1 Phyllodesma americana

1 Tyria jacobaeae

5 Venusia obsoleta /pearsalli

 

Yesterday, writes Jeremy Tatum, we mentioned the difficulty that we often have in separating Egira crucialis from E. simplex, and we showed a picture of what I said was an ideal E. crucialis.  Today, Jochen provides us with two pictures of what I what describe as truly ideal Egira simplex. 

 

Egira simplex (Lep. Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Egira simplex (Lep. Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

American Lappet Moth Phyllodesma americana  (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

 

Cinnabar Moth Tyria jacobaeae (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jochen Möhr