2022 September 2 morning

    Jochen Möhr sends a photograph, obtained in Metchosin of a flutter fly yesterday:

Flutter fly Toxonevra muliebris (Dip.:  Pallopteridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

The genus is sometimes spelled Toxoneura, and the fly has also been listed in the genus Palloptera, but the currently preferred scientific name and spelling are as given in the caption under the photograph.   This is a European species only recently recognized in British Columbia.  The history and list of records in British Columbia are given in Cannings and Gibson JESBC 116, 64-68 (2009).  The first British Columbia record was in 2016. To the list in Cannings and Gibson, we can add one more (in addition to the record here), namely one was photographed in Metchosin, also by Jochen, 2019 July 26, shown on this Invertebrate Alert Website for that date.

 

Cheryl Hoyle sends photographs of two flies from View Royal, August 30.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I cannot be 100 percent sure of their identifications, but I believe there is a fairly high probability that I have labelled them correctly.

 

Phaonia (possibly pallida) (Dip.: Anthomyiidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

(Placed by some authors in Muscidae)

Anthrax sp. (Dip.: Bombyliidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

Cheryl  shows that ripe figs can be a good attractant for moths and other insects.  We identify only the largest moth in each photograph.

 

Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

Catocala (probably aholibah) (Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae)    Cheryl Hoyle

  Here are more photographs by Ian Cooper – taken in the middle of the night.   The first is a nematoceran fly – possibly but not certainly a chironomid.  If any viewer can help, please let us know.

 

Unknown (Dip. –  Nematocera)  Ian Cooper

 

Next, two unidentified moth caterpillars.

 

Unknown (Lep.: Geometridae)  Ian Cooper

Unknown (Lep.)  Ian Cooper