2020 August 28

 

Two dragonflies by Gordon Hart from the Pike Lake substation ponds, August 26:

 

Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Gordon Hart

Sympetrum pallipes (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Gordon Hart

and another, near his Highlands house, the following day:

 

Sympetrum pallipes (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Gordon Hart

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

1 Emmelina monodactyla 

2 Eulithis xylina

1 Lacinipolia pensilis

1 Nadata gibbosa

1 Neoalcis californiaria

1 Fishea illocata

1 Pyrausta perrubralis

1 Catocala aholibah

 

Fishea illocata (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Lacinipolia pensilis (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

Catocala aholibah (Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae)  Jochen Möhr

   A miscellany from Ian Cooper from the Galloping Goose Trail near Tillicum Road, August 27:

 

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Ian Cooper

Vespula pensylvanica/germanica (Hym.: Vespidae)

with Zootermopsis angusticollis (Blatt.: Archotermopsidae) Ian Cooper

(Thanks to Claudia Copley for the identifications.)

Salticus scenicus (Ara.: Salticidae)  Ian Cooper

Syritta pipiens (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

Honey Bee Apis mellifera (Hym.: Apidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Pennisetia marginata (Lep.: Sesiidae)   Ian Cooper

   …And, for those who are wondering if the “Lep.” in the legend is a misprint, and it should be “Hym.” – no, these are indeed clearwing moths.   Male below, female above.  Known in the fruit-growing industry as the Rasbperry Crown Borer Moth.

 

An exciting moth day, capped off by a nice pterophorid from Sharon Godkin.  Known as the Geranium Plume Moth, though the caterpillar feeds on a wide range of plants as well as geraniums.  Sometimes found in greenhouses.  Not sure if the “Geranium” if its names refers to plants genuinely in the genus Geranium or to the popularly mis-named “Geranium”  – actually Pelargonium.

 

Amblyptilia pica (Lep.: Pterophoridae)  Sharon Godkin.