2020 May 1 afternoon

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Tetracis cervinaria

1 Egira simplex

1 Eupithecia – probably graefii

1 Hyalophora euryalus (different, fresher individual than two days ago)

1 Melanolophia imitata

1 Nola minna

5 Tyria jacobaeae

 

Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

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

 

Tetracis cervinaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Egira simplex  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Here’s a syrphid fly from Mr E.  Thanks to Dr Jeff Skevington for confirming its identification as a dark morph Toxomerus sp.

 

Toxomerus sp.  (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Mr E

 

   Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying this click beetle, photographed by Mr E, as Selatosomus suckleyi:

 

 Selatosomus suckleyi (Col.: Elateridae)  Mr E

 

Selatosomus suckleyi (Col.: Elateridae)  Mr E

 

Selatosomus suckleyi (Col.: Elateridae)  Mr E

 

   Here are some Hymenoptera, photographed by Mr E.  Hymenoptera species are so numerous, and not all well studied, that it is not always possible to be certain from a photograph of an identification at species level.  Thanks to Matthias Buck for a good go!

 

Ichneumonid  (Hym.: Ichneumonidae)   Mr E

 

Nomad bee Nomada sp.(Hym.: Apidae)  Mr E

 

Giant sawfly Abia sp (Hym.: Cimbicidae)  Mr E

 

Sawfly (Hym.: Tenthredinidae)  Mr E