2021 March 6

 

    Rosemary Jorna sends photographs of a tiny moth and a tiny beetle from Kemp Lake.  Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying the beetle to Family level.

 

Alucita montana (Lep.: Alucitidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Small beetle (Col.: Eucinetidae)  Rosemary Jorna

   And talking of tiny insects, writes Jeremy Tatum, here’s one from the Tineidae – which doesn’t mean tiny.  It is a web-spinning clothes moth, regrettably from my apartment.

Tineola bisselliella (Lep.: Tineidae)   Jeremy Tatum

  And now – a big insect:   Ian Cooper found this cocoon of a giant sawfly along the Galloping Goose Trail.  Not sure which of two species it is.

 

Trichiosoma triangulum or Cimbex americana (Hym.: Cimbicidae)

Ian Cooper