2015 September 26

In case you are wondering if your computer missed a beat, no it didn’t – there wasn’t a September 25 posting.

On September 24 I reported a sighting of Autographa californica nectaring “in classical plusiine style”.  In case any viewer is wondering what than means, Devon Parker photographed his own Autographa californica nectaring “in classical plusiine style” on his lemon tree yesterday.  See that haustellum probing for nectar!  [An elephant has a proboscis; a moth has a haustellum.  (But in ordinary conversation, proboscis is just fine!)]

Autographa californica (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Devon Parker

  Rosemary Jorna writes:  Literally thousands of these impossibly small bugs flew out of the Salal this morning when we were clearing a trail in Otter Point this morning.  They only seemed to be on the Salal.   [Jeremy Tatum writes:  This is the first image we’ve had of these bugs on this site.  There are hundreds of species, so I shan’t attempt an exact identification.]

Whitefly (Hem.: Aleyrodidae)  Rosemary Jorna