2022 May 31

     Rosemary Jorna sends these photographs of a beetle and a mite from the Kemp Lake area, May 29.  Scott Gilmore identifies the beetle as from the genus Amara, commonly called Sun Beetles.

 

Amara sp. (Col.: Carabidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

Amara sp. (Col.: Carabidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

 

We’re working on the mite ID!

   Val George sends photographs of two moths from his Oak Bay house, May 31.

Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata  (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae) Val George

 

Cyclophora dataria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George

   Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a caterpillar found on cottonwood at Rithet’s Bog, May 30:

Enargia infumata (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum