2020 August 29

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Eulithis xylina

1 Drepanulatrix sp. 

1 Fishia illocata

4 Lacinipolia pensilis

1 Nadata gibbosa 

2 Neoalcis californiaria 

1 Ypsolopha canariella 

 

Lacinipolia pensilis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Lacinipolia pensilis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Fishea illocata (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

   A miscellany from the Galloping Goose Trail by Ian Cooper, August 28:

 

Raspberry Crown Borer Moth Pennisetia marginata (Lep.: Sesiidae)  Ian Cooper

   Thanks to Dr Jeff Skevington for the identification of the two flies below.  The first of these is a recent European arrival in British Columbia.

Myathropa florea (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

Eristalis tenax (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

Zootermopsis angusticollis (Blatt.: Archotermopsidae)  Ian Cooper

Nymph of bug.  Hemiptera, probably Pentatomidae, possibly Brochymena.   Ian Cooper

Misumena vatia (Ara.: Thomisidae)  Ian Cooper