2020 May 27 morning

 

   Mr E found a Golden Buprestid beetle in his garden yesterday:

 

Golden Buprestid Beetle Buprestis aurulenta (Col.: Buprestidae)  Mr E

 

Golden Buprestid Beetle Buprestis aurulenta (Col.: Buprestidae)  Mr E

 

Golden Buprestid Beetle Buprestis aurulenta (Col.: Buprestidae)  Mr E

 

   A moth and a butterfly from Jochen Möhr’s Metchosin garden yesterday:

 

Adela septentrionella (Lep.: Adelidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Jochen also saw in his garden a Western Spring Azure (they are approaching the end of their season, so observers should continue to keep a lookout for this species, and also to look carefully in case it is a different species!), a Tiger Swallowtail (probably Pale), and an Anise Swallowtail. 

 

   Jeremy Tatum remarks:  I have yet to see my first swallowtail (any species) this year!   Are they really that scarce?

 

  A note on some names:  The Cedar Hairstreak has had many different names, both English and scientific.  It is not practicable to try to keep up with every change on this site, nor particularly desirable to do so.  I feel it is better to stick to one name on this single Website, and for consistency I have been using the name Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri.  Some modern writers are using the name Callophrys gryneus.  I cannot think that this name will last long.  It is not at all like other butterflies in the genus Callophrys.

 

   Viewers will notice that, for Papilio eurymedon, I have been using on this site the name Pale Tiger Swallowtail.  I do not know why some writers have dropped the “Tiger” from the name.  It was called the Pale Tiger Swallowtail for most of last century, and there seems to be no good reason for dropping the “Tiger”.  It, and several other very similar (indeed difficult to distinguish) species, belong to the subgenus (formerly full genus) Pterourus, very distinct from other Papilio species.

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Eupithecia sp.

1 Lacinipolia sp.

1 Nadata gibbosa

2 Perizoma curvilinea

18 Tyria jacobaeae

3 Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli

 

Nadata gibbosa (Lep.:  Notodontidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

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

 

Lacinipolia sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Homorthodes hanhami (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr