2022 July 5 evening

    Aziza Cooper sends photographs of a damselfly from Panama Flats, July1;  and an Essex Skipper and a fly from Swan Lake, July 4.  Jeremy Tatum also notes that several  Essex Skippers are now (July 5) flying at Swan Lake.

 Jeremy Tatum writes:  The fly is beyond my knowledge to identify, although the genus Pollenia passes through my mind – although I am by no means sure of this.   If any dipterist out there has a suggestion for its identification, please do let us know.

Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Unknown fly – possibly Pollenia?  (Dip.: Polleniidae)   Aziza Cooper

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I found two small (early instar) caterpillars at Swan Lake today, July 5:

Rusty Tussock or Vapourer Moth Orgyia antiqua (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)

  Jeremy Tatum

 

Western Spring Azure Celestrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   Here are three snails from Carey Road.  Two of them were camera-shy (or to be honest, I lacked patience), but one obliged.  You can appreciate how fast snails can move only if you are sitting behind a camera with your finger on the expose button.

Cepaea nemoralis (Pul.:  Helicidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Cepaea nemoralis (Pul.:  Helicidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   Jochen Möhr sends photographs of moths from Metchosin this morning.

Female Malacosoma californicum (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)   Jochen Möhr

 

Idaea dimidiata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Noctua pronuba (Lep.; Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr