2020 August 13

 

   Gordon Hart sends photographs of two moths from Highlands.   They look as though they should be easy to identify, but both belong to genera that include some very similar species, and we can’t be sure.  The first one is probably Xanthorhoe defensaria – but it might be X. ferrugata!   And the second is probably Drepanulatrix monicaria  – but it might be one of the others!

 

Xanthorhoe sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

Drepanulatrix sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

   Rosemary Jorna sends pictures of some insects from the Kemp Lake area.  She says there are twenty or so of these little moths on her Tansy:

 

Diploschizia impigritella (Lep.:  Glyphipterigidae) Rosemary Jorna

   Your knowledge of Latin will tell you how many spots this ladybird beetle is supposed to have.  But since the spots are joined together, it’s a bit difficult to count them.

Psyllobora vigintimaculata (Col.: Coccinellidae)  Rosemary Jorna

   Next is a nymph of some bug – but I wouldn’t like even to guess at the Family.  Suggestions would be welcome.

 

Unidentified bug nymph (Hemiptera)  Rosemary Jorna

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Apantesis nevadensis

1 Cosmia praeacuta 

1 Eulithis xylina 

1 Hesperumia sulphuraria 

2 Lacinipolia cuneata

1 perhaps Lacinipolia pensilis

1 Oligia divesta

1 Panthea virginarius

2 Perizoma curvilinea

1 Pyrausta perrubralis

 

Venusia cambrica (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 Apantesis nevadensis  (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jochen Möhr

   Jody Wells sends a picture of a Black Saddlebags, spotted by Carl Hughes at Outerbridge Park:

 

Tramea lacerata (Odo.:  Libellulidae)  Jody Wells

   Jody also sends pictures of some snails from the Martindale Valley:

 

Cepaea nemoralis (Pul.: Helicidae)  Jody Wells

Lymnaea (perhaps stagnalis?) (Pul.: Lymnaeidae)  Jody Wells