August 9
2017 August 9
Jeremy Tatum writes: I found a spider in my apartment this morning that was so huge that I couldn’t fit it all into the frame:
Eratigena atrica (Ara.: Agelenidae) Jeremy Tatum
Aziza Cooper writes: On Monday, August 7, I found one Purplish Copper at McIntyre Reservoir along the south side rim road. Also there were Cabbage Whites and one Western Pondhawk dragonfly.
Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides (Lep.: Lycaenidae) Aziza Cooper
Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata (Odo.: Libellulidae) Aziza Cooper
Jeremy Tatum writes: I was at Swan Lake today, and I saw what I took to be a small metallic blue ichneumonid or braconid. I had more or less decided that it was too small to be an ichneumonid and therefore it was probably a braconid when I suddenly realized that I was in entirely the wrong Order! It was a sesiid (clearwing) moth. It was a smaller and different species from the Synanthedon bibionipennis twice recently reported on this site, but it didn’t stay for me to get a good look at it; it darted off as they so often do. So rarely do I see sesiids, and so exciting are they, that I take note of them even when it is just a fleeting glance at an unidentified one.