2020 August 15 morning

 

From Gordon Hart:

 

Hello Butterfly Watchers,

The July count period starts Saturday August 15 until Sunday August 23. This is an informal census of butterfly numbers and species in Greater Victoria. The area is defined by the Christmas Bird Count circle, extending from Victoria to Brentwood Bay and Island View Road in Central Saanich, and west to Happy Valley and Triangle Mountain, and Langford Lake and Goldstream areas.

You can submit a count any time over the count period, just use a separate form for each count and location. In the case of repeat or duplicate counts, I will use the higher numbers. To submit counts, please use the form from the VNHS website at: https://www.vicnhs.bc.ca/?p=33

If you have difficulty with the form, just send me an email with the information.

Thank-you for submitting your sightings and good luck with your count.

-Gordon

 

Gordon Hart,

Butterfly Count Coordinator,

Victoria Natural History Society

 

   Rosemary Jorna sends a selection of insect photographs from the Kemp Lake area.  Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying the moth, and to Claudia Copley for the grasshopper.

 

Choreutis diana (Lep.: Choreutidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Melanoplus sp. (Orth.: Acrididae)  Rosemary Jorna

   Scott Gilmore sends photographs of a robber fly from Lantzville, identified for us by Dr Rob Cannings as  a male Neomochtherus willistoni,

 

Neomochtherus willistoni (Dip.: Asilidae)  Scott Gilmore

 

Neomochtherus willistoni (Dip.: Asilidae)  Scott Gilmore

 

 

   Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of what we presume is a nymph of a bug, from Pedder Bay.  We don’t think we can identify it, but if any viewer has suggestions, please let us know.  Perhaps Nabidae or Miridae, but we really don’t know.

 

Unidentified bug nymph (Hemiptera)   Aziza Cooper

   A moth and a bug from Gordon Hart in the Highlands.

 

Evergestis pallidata (Lep.: Crambidae)  Gordon Hart

Eurygaster sp. (Hem.: Scuterellidae)  Gordon Hart

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

 

2 Campaea perlata

1 Eupithecia sp.

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Nemoria darwiniata 

1 Ochlodes sylvanoides 

3 Perizoma curvilinea 

1 Pero mizon

1 Plemyria georgii

1 Sabulodes aegrotata

 

Pero (maybe mizon) (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Sabulodes aegrotata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr