2020 August 12

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   The unkempt caterpillar shown yesterday has now had time to tidy itself up a bit:

 

Acronicta impleta (Lep.: Noctuidae)   Jeremy Tatum

   Jeremy writes:  I found this weevil at Blinkhorn Lake yesterday, kindly identified by Charlene Wood as an Obscure Root Weevil Sciopithes obscurus .

 

Obscure Root Weevil Sciopithes obscurus (Col.: Curculionidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   Jochen Möhr sends photographs of a butterfly and a moth from Metchosin today:

Male Pine White Neophasia menapia (Lep.: Pieridae)  Jochen Möhr

Hesperumia sulphuraria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

   Jochen writes:  It is still a striking contrast to years ago, when I could count up to 28 Pine Whites just driving by the Royal Roads forest from the Colwood Fire Hall to the Royal Bay Bakery, a stretch of merely 0.6 km.  I have not seen a single one there this season yet .   Libby Avis writes from Port Alberni:  Not many butterflies here either this year.

 

But Jeff Gaskin writes:  Kirsten Mills is still seeing a number of Lorquin’s Admirals around these parts.  Today, August 12 she saw five on Wordsworth Street – and one was still quite fresh.  She also saw another one plus a Pine White in Browning Gyro Park.  Wordsworth Street and Browning Gyro Park are both places near Hillside Centre.  My mother still has a Lorquin’s Admiral  in her backyard and she lives on the Gorge near Harriet Road.  I last saw it today, Aug. 12.

 

 

Gordon Hart sends some pictures from Highlands:

 

Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae)  Gordon Hart

Green Darner Anax junius (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Gordon Hart

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

(plus one we shan’t try to identify!)

Phlogophora periculosa (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Gordon Hart

(plus a sciarid dark-winged fungus gnat)