2016 September 26

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Gordon Hart’s Cerisy’s Eyed Hawk Moth caterpillar (see September 16 posting) has pupated.  The pupa is shown below, next to a quarter.

Cerisy’s Eyed Hawk Moth Smerinthus cerisyi (Lep.: Sphingidae)

   Gordon Hart writes: On Sunday, September 25, at the corner of Ocean Boulevard and Lagoon Road, we looked at a patch of Tansy growing along the roadside. Its yellow flowers were covered by dozens of ladybirds at various levels of maturity. I tried to get pictures showing each of the stages of development, but it was difficult. Perhaps one or more of the attached might give some idea of what we saw. Besides the ladybirds, there was a nice green Cuckoo Wasp, and two species of syrphid fly, and probably other creatures.

Harmonia axyridis adult and larva (Col.: Coccinellidae)  Gordon Hart

Bottom left: Pupa of Harmonia axyridis (Col.: Coccinellidae)

Right:  Adult Adalia bipunctata (Col.: Coccinellidae)

Gordon Hart

Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a Blue-eyed Darner from Swan Lake, September 26.

Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Aziza Cooper