2020 September 28

 

   The moth below was photographed today by Erin Keogh at the Swan Lake Nature House.  Thanks to Libby Avis for the identification.

 

Sabulodes aegrotata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Erin Keogh

   Here’s an ant photographed by Ian Cooper.  Thanks to Dr Rob Higgins of Thompson Rivers University for the tentative identification.

 

Formica (probably oreas) (Hym.: Formicidae) Ian Cooper

      Jeremy Tatum shows a caterpillar of an Anise Swallowtail (one borrowed from Bow Park!) preparing to pupate:

 

Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

It has now finished the job!:

 

Anise Swallowtail Papilio zelicaon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Agonopterix nervosa

1 Triphosa haesitata

1 Drepanulatrix sp. 

1 Dryotype opina

7 Ennomos magnaria 

1 Lithomoia germana 

1 Neoalcis californiaria

1 Platyptilia carduidactylus

1 Pleromelloida cinerea

and two inaccessible micros that I was not able to get decent pictures of.

 

 

Platyptilia carduidactylus (Lep.: Pterophoridae)  Jochen Möhr

Dryotype opina (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Here’s a drone fly photographed by Ian Cooper on September 25.  Dr Jeff Skevington tells us that it is either Eristalis arbustorum or E. brousii – one needs a clear view of the legs to be sure which is which.  See 2020 August 18 for one identified by Dr Skevington as E. arbustorum, and another that cannot  be identified with certainty on September 15.

 

Eristalis arbustorum/brousii (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

More tomorrow…