2024 July 10 evening

Jeremy Tatum writes:  This snipe fly was on my living-room window this morning, and it permitted me only a silhouette for a photograph (it is a dorsal [sic] view).  It bears a very close resemblance to a male European Chrysopilus cristatus, although I haven’t been able to determine if that species occurs here.

Snipe fly Chrysopilus (possibly cristatus) (Dip.: Rhagionidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Apamea is a large genus of noctuid moths.  In the last few days, we have had three representative species on Invertebrate Alert:
July 4:   A. cuculliformis
July 7     A. amputatrix
July 8     A. probably atriclava

And yesterday, Libby Avis had another one in Port Alberni:
July 9     A. probably antennata

Here is Libby’s:

Apamea (probably antennata)  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Libby Avis