2021 May 17 morning

 

   Aziza Cooper writes:

 

        Here is a small moth seen today, May 16, at Thomas Francis / Freeman King Park.

     Also here are two photos of Western Spring Azures, same date and place.

 

Mesoleuca gratulata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

     Jeremy Tatum writes:    Below are photographs of three flies obtained by Rosemary Jorna near Kemp Lake on May 5.   I haven’t managed to get identifications of them.  If anyone can help, please do let us know.   In the meantime, I am making wild guesses at them at Family level – please don’t take them for definitive identifications.

 

    My guess at the first one, below, is probably Tachinidae, though maybe Calliphoridae.

 

Fly 1 (Diptera)   Rosemary Jorna

 

    Fly 2 may possibly be Syrphidae:

 

Fly 2 (Diptera)   Rosemary Jorna

 

   And I think Fly 3 is probably Muscidae – maybe Helina  or Phaonia.

Fly 3 (Diptera)   Rosemary Jorna