2020 May 6

 

   Jochen Möhr sends a Picture of a Western Spring Azure nectaring on Geranium molle in Metchosin yesterday.

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

    Val George writes:  I found this nest of baby spiders in my garden in Oak Bay yesterday morning, May 5.  I think these little guys are Cross Orbweavers Araneus diadematus.

 

Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae)  Val George

 

 

   Mr E sends some photographs of a brown lacewing adult and larva. 

 

Brown lacewing (Neu.:  Hemerobiidae)  Mr E

 

Brown lacewing (Neu.:  Hemerobiidae)  Mr E

 

Brown lacewing (Neu.:  Hemerobiidae)  Mr E

 

 

Brown lacewing (Neu.:  Hemerobiidae)  Mr E

 

   Mr E also sends photographs of a “mish-mash” of other interesting creatures:

Blue-green Sharpshooter Hordnia atropunctata (Hem.: Cicadellidae)  Mr E

 

Leafhopper  Ceratagallia sp. (Hem.: Cicadellidae) Mr E

 

   Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for confirming the spider below as a male crab spider of the genus Xysticus.

 

 

Xysticus sp (Ara.: Thomisidae)  Mr E

 

   We think the following fly is in Muscidae – Phaoniinae, but we cannot be certain whether it is Phaonia or Fannia:

 

Fly (Dip.: Muscidae – Phaoniinae)  Mr E

 

Fly (Dip.: Muscidae – Phaoniinae)  Mr E

 

   Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying the beetle below:

 

Raspberry Fruitworm Beetle Byturus unicolor (Col.:  Byturidae ) Mr E

 

Adela trigrapha (Lep.: Adelidae)  Mr E

 

Adela trigrapha (Lep.: Adelidae)  Mr E