2020 May 13 morning

 

   Bug identified!   Jeremy Tatum writes:  We have shown several  bugs (Hemiptera) recently, which I haven’t been able to identify.  So I am very happy that Libby Avis (who identifies most of our moths for us) has identified one of Rosemary Jorna’s bugs shown on May 10 afternoon (quod vide).

 

   Jeremy Tatum  writes:   At 6:00 pm last evening, May 12, there were two Painted Ladies on the summit of Mount Tolmie.  But I am seeing very few butterflies at all anywhere this year.  Are other butterfliers finding this, too?

 

  Mr E sends a picture of a young juvenile spider.   It is a bit hard to identify juvenile spiders, but Dr Robb Bennett has a good stab at it!  Dr Bennett writes:  Definitely a juvenile, but Linyphiidae rather than Theridiidae. Could be a young Pityohyphantes – that genus is characterized by a dark “tuning fork” pattern on the carapace, as in this specimen.  Though Pityos usually have a distinctive dark dorsal pattern on the abdomen, lacking here but that could just be because it’s a juvie…

 

Possibly Pityohyphantes (Ara.:  Linyphiidae) Mr E

 

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Apamea cinefacta

1 Egira rubrica

3 Eupithecias

3 Melanolophia imitata

1 Nola minna

2 Perizoma curvilinea

18 Tyria jacobaeae

5 Venusia obsoleta /pearsalli

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria 

Egira rubrica (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Apamea cinefacta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr