2020 August 22 morning

 

   Here are a harvestman (kindly identified for us by Dr Philip Bragg) and a robber fly (kindly identified for us by  Dr Rob Cannings), photographed by Ian Cooper:

 

Phalangium opilio (Opi.: Phalangiidae)  Ian Cooper

Phalangium opilio (Opi.: Phalangiidae)  Ian Cooper

   The harvestman was seen to be eating pollen from the thistle.

Neomochtherus willistoni (Dip.: Asilidae)   Ian Cooper

   Two moths from Gordon Hart in the Highlands:

 

 

Triphosa haesitata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

Unknown geometrid (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

    Three snails from the Kemp Lake area, from Rosemary Jorna:

 

 

Monadenia fidelis (Pul.: Bradybaenidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Vespericola columbianus (Pul.: Polygyridae)  Rosemary Jorna

feeding on a slime mould

Nearctula sp. (Pul.: Vertiginidae)  Rosemary Jorna

on the bark of Big Leaf Maple

   Jochen Möhr’s  moths from Metchosin last night:

 

1 Apamea amputatrix

3 Eupithecia sp. 

5 Eulithis xylina

1 Feltia jaculifera

1 Gabriola dyari

4 Neoalcis californiaria

1 Oligia divesta

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria

 

Gabriola dyari (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Neoalcis californiaria  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Feltia jaculifera (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Oligia divesta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr