July 8 morning

 

   Here are more moths from Metchosin, photographed by Jochen Möhr and identified by Libby Avis.

Eulithis xylina (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Perizoma costiguttata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Iridopsis larvaria/emasculatum (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Acronicta dactylina (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

Lacinipolia cuneata (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Lacinipolia patalis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   Here is one of several weevils I noted on thistles at Rithet’s Bog yesterday (July 7).  Charlene Wood writes:  It is a “Thistle Head Weevil” Rhinocyllus conicus, which was introduced in the late 1960s as a biocontrol agent on musk/nodding thistle.  It’s well established in North America and also attacks native Cirsium spp.  It’s blackish-brown with tufts of yellow hair that fall out as the beetle ages. The snout is short and broad.

 

Rhynocyllus conicus (Col.: Curculionidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   More this evening…