2020 July 5 morning

 

   Mr E sends a miscellany of photographs, which are a challenge to identify.  If any viewer can help with any of these, please let us know:  jtatum at uvic dot  ca

 

One hesitates even to think of identifying aphidids, but, writes Jeremy Tatum, I think these ones on a young Broom pod may be Acyrthosiphon pisum:

 

Probably Acyrthosiphon pisum (Hem.: Aphididae)  Mr E

 

Spittle Bug Philaenus spumarius (Hem.: Cercopidae)  Mr E

 

Spittle Bug Philaenus spumarius (Hem.: Cercopidae)  Mr E

 

   Dr Robb Bennett confirms Mr E’s identification of the spider below as Tibellus and almost certainly T. oblongus.

 

Tibellus (almost certainly oblongus) (Ara.: Philodromidae)  Mr E

 

   I despair of identifying this fly.  Perhaps some viewer can help?

 

Unidentified fly (Diptera)  Mr E

 

   Ichneumons are even more difficult.  Parasitoidal hymenopterans known loosely  (and not always correctly) as “ichmeumon wasps” belong to several Families, but I believe this one is probably a genuine ichneumon wasp of the Family Ichneumonidae.

 

Hym.: probably Ichneumonidae    Mr E

 

More, awaiting identification, to come…