2020 August 14

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths, and a butterfly,  from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Biston betularia

1 Habrosyne scripta

2 Lacinipolia pensilis 

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Ochlodes sylvanoides

 

Lacinipolia pensilis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Habrosyne scripta (Lep.: Thyatiridae – Thyatirinae)  Jochen Möhr

Plemyria georgii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)   Jochen Möhr

   Rosemary Jorna sends a picture of a bumble bee from Kemp Lake, kindly identified by Annie Pang as a male Bombus flavifrons…

Bombus flavifrons  ( Hym.:  Apidae)  Rosemary Jorna

…and a dragonfly, kindly identified by Dr Rob Cannings as a male Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata…

 

Aeshna palmata (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Rosemary Jorna

…and a beetle, kindly identified by Scott Gilmore as a male Megapenthes sp.

 

Megapenthes sp. (Col.: Elateridae)  Rosemary Jorna

   Here’s a beetle found by Gordon Hart in the Highlands, identified by Scott Gilmore as possibly Megasemum asperum.

 

Possibly Megasemum asperum (Col.:  Cerambycidae)  Gordon Hart

   Ian Cooper photographed this large fly, Eristalis flavipes, on August 10 by the E&N Trail near the Fort Victoria RV Park.

 

Eristalis flavipes (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

Eristalis flavipes (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

   More tomorrow…   That’s all I can manage today.  Jeremy