2024 September 22
2024 September 22
No Invertebrate Alerts were issued on September 20, 21.
Here is the pupa formed by the hawk moth caterpillar shown on September 14. His Majesty the King is examining it from the obverse of a 2024 dime.
Since this species was split from S. cerisyi, Cerisy’s Eyed Hawk Moth, I (Jeremy Tatum) haven’t heard of any generally used English name for it. Ophthalmic Eyed Hawk Moth doesn’t sound very good. Has anyone heard of a name, or can make a suggestion for one?
Smerinthus ophthalmica (Lep.: Sphingidae) Jeremy Tatum
Marie O’Shaughnessy writes: I visited several spots Saturday and found only Cabbage White butterflies: 1 at Cattle Point, 2 at Uplands Park, 2 at Outerbridge Park, 2 at McIntyre Reservoir (to which Jeremy Tatum adds 1 at Mount View Park). Marie sends a photograph of a Blue-eyed Darner at Outerbridge Park. There is also a dragonfly exuvia in the photograph – not sure if it is the same species or not.
Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae) Marie O’Shaughnessy