2022 August 2 morning

    Yesterday’s appeal for someone to identify a crane fly shown in yesterday’s posting bore fruit.  Scroll down to August 1 to see what it was!

   Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of a beautiful  Golden Jewel Beetle that landed on his deck in Metchosin.

Buprestis aurulenta (Col.: Buprestidae)  Jochen Möhr

   Jeremy Tatum shows a Rusty Tussock or Vapourer Moth.  The caterpillar was shown on July 15.  This moth is a male.  You can tell that not only because of its elaborate antennae, but also because the female has no wings!  Many plants have been recorded as larval foodplants;  this individual was reared on Mahonia.

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

Here’s a Yellow Woolly Bear found yesterday at McIntyre Reservoir.

 

Yellow Woolly Bear Spilosoma virginica (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jeremy Tatum