2020 July 19 afternoon

 

 

  Annie Pang sends pictures of two bees:

 

Lasioglossum sp.: (Hym.:  Halictidae)  Annie Pang

 

Bombus mixtus (Hym.: Apidae)   Annie Pang

 

   Here are some photographs by Scott Gilmore from Mount Washington, yesterday and today:

 

Okanagana canadensis (Hem.: Cicadidae)  Scott Gilmore

 

Great Arctic Oeneis nevadensis (Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae)  Scott Gilmore

 

Wolf spider Pardosa (perhaps lowriei) (Ara.: Lycosidae)  Scott Gilmore

[Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for the identification.]

 

    Gordon Hart writes:

 

Yesterday, Saturday, we did Strawberry Knoll Park, a small oak hillside between Hastings Flats and Courtland Flats off Interurban, and found two Lorquin’s Admirals, one Western Tiger Swallowtail, and at least five Cabbage Whites. At home, we had four Lorquin’s Admirals, one Western Tiger Swallowtail, and a Cabbage White.

 

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae) Gordon Hart

 

…and a bee, which shall remain unidentified!

 

   Here are three insects photographed by Rosemary Jorna, Kemp Lake, July 19.

 

13-spotted Ladybird Beetle Hippodamus tredecimpunctata (Col.: Coccinellidae) Rosemary Jorna

 

European Paper Wasp  Polistes dominula (Hym.: Vespidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

Toxomerus geminatus (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

   Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of a fly, kindly identified for us by Dr Jeff Skevington:

 

Meliscaeva cinctella (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Jochen Möhr