2020 August 21

 

   The Daily Photo on page B6 of today’s Times-Colonist shows a good photograph of a “black and yellow fuzzy caterpillar”.   Users of this site will recognize it as a Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata.

 

   Ian Cooper sends photographs of a bee, kindly identified by Claudia Copley and by Matthias Buck as a megachilid Resin Bee Dianthidium sp.   This is in the same Family as the leafcutter bees, although apparently it does not share the leaf-cutting and construction habits of other  members of the Family.

 

Dianthidium sp. (Hym.: Megachilidae)  Ian Cooper

Dianthidium sp. (Hym.: Megachilidae)  Ian Cooper

Dianthidium sp. (Hym.: Megachilidae)  Ian Cooper

   Ian also sends a photograph of a Lorquin’s Admiral:

 

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Ian Cooper

     Jeremy Tatum writes:  The caterpillar below, shown before on August 19, is now fully grown and posed for a photograph today.  Found on Salmonberry at Blinkhorn Lake.

 

Acronicta impleta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Enypia venata

1 Eulithis xylina

4 Neoalcis californiaria

1 Sabulodes aegrotata

1 Nemoria darwiniata

 

Enypia venata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Sabulodes aegrotata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

   Two moths from Gordon Hart in the Highlands.  On August 18 Gordon counted 20 Neoalcis californiaria.

 

Udea profundalis (Lep.: Crambidae)  Gordon Hart

Sicya crocearia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart