2016 April 13,  morning

   Some more wonderful pictures from the Highlands District from the last few days contributed by Thomas Barbin.  First, a leafhopper bug – the Blue-green Sharpshooter Hordnia atropunctata:

Two images of a sawfly, probably Tenthredinidae, not only because this is the largest sawfly family, but because the other families usually have rather distinctive antennae.   I am reminded that this site is perpetually in need of someone who can help with Hymenoptera identification, so, if that is you, please let us know!

Now a close-up of a click beetle.

Click beetle  (Col.:  Elateridae)   Thomas Barbin

If you have strong nerves, proceed to the next photograph, rated PG:

Ant  (Hym.:  Formicidae – Formicinae)  Thomas Barbin

If you managed to get past that one, prepare for the last two – jumping spiders.  Robb Bennett suggest they may both possibly be Evarcha proszynskii, but he says that he can’t be completely sure.

Jumping spider, possibly Evarcha proszynskii (Ara.:  Salticidae)  Thomas Barbin

Time for something a little more gentle, I think.   Here is a Moss’s Elfin, photographed by Jeremy Gatten.

Moss’s Elfin Incisalia mossii (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jeremy Gatten.

And a caterpillar that Jeremy Tatum found on Snowberry at Swan Lake on April 12:

Jeremy Tatum writes:  The moth below was on the wall of my Saanich apartment a week or so ago.  Eric LaGasa suggests that it might be Agonopterix fusciterminella, though it would need dissection to confirm.

Possibly Agonopterix fusciterminella (Lep.: Depressariidae)  Jeremy Tatum

The moth below, identified by Eric LaGasa as Argyrotaenia franciscana, from Blenkinsop Lake, was reared from Oemleria cerasiformis.