2015 July 25

   Jeff Gaskin clarifies:   It was 240 Lavenders, hence 1200 Woodland Skippers (see July 23 posting).  Don’t worry, Jeff – everyone makes arithmetic mistakes every day!  Big bunch of skippers, whatever!

  Annie Pang photographed the Cabbage White below at Gorge Park, July 22.

Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)  Annie Pang

   Scott Gilmore writes:  There was a nice surprise at my black light this morning. A Black-rimmed Prominent.

Black-rimmed Prominent Pheosia rimosa (Lep.: Notodontidae)

Scott Gilmore

   Val George writes:  Today, July 25, I found this long-horned beetle Xestoleptura crassicornis on my bean plants.   Also today, you might be interested to know that I almost ate (really) a Myzia subvittata. [That’s the big ladybird reported recently by Libby Avis (July 22) and Scott Gilmore (July 12 – Jeremy]. I was picking blackberries and popping them into my mouth when I noticed  –   just in time  –   that the one I was about to eat had a beetle on it.  I immediately recognized it as one I thought I`d just seen on the Invertebrate Alert.  Sure enough, when I got home and checked, that’s what it was.

Xestoleptura crassicornis (Col.: Cerambycidae)  Val George