2020 July 20

 

   Roleen Sevillena sends a photograph of a moth from outside the door of the Swan Lake Nature Centre:

 

Nematocampa resistaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Roleen Sevillena

 

    Jody Wells sends photographs of a dragonfly and a bee, kindly identified by Annie Pang.

 

Male Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Jody Wells

 

Bombus vosnesenskii (Hym.: Apidae)  Jody Wells

 

   Gordon Hart sends a photograph of an adult male Malacosoma californicum – whose caterpillar is the familiar orange and black tent caterpillar.

 

Male Malacosoma californicum (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Gordon Hart

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Eulithis xylina

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Nadata gibbosa

3 Nemoria darwiniata

1 Panthea virginarius

1 Pyrausta perrubralis

4 Sicya crocearia 

1 Macaria signaria

1 Cyclophora pendulinaria

 

 

    Jeff Gaskin writes:  Today, July 20,  I walked around the Royal Roads University and neighbouring streets and found a total of 28 Pine Whites, 34 Cabbage Whites, 4 Lorquin’s Admirals, and a Western Tiger Swallowtail.