August 9 evening

 

   On July 2 morning, we posted a photograph of a syrphid fly, but I didn’t know who the photographer was.  Will anyone admit to photographing  it?  In any case I’m happy to say that we now have an identification for the fly if not for the photographer.  Thanks to Michelle Locke for identifying it as Dasysyrphus intrudens, which she describes as “a complex of species, yet to be sorted out”.

   Jeremy Tatum shows a photograph of a female caterpillar of the Vapourer Moth (also known as the Rusty Tussock Moth) from English Hawthorn at Quick’s Bottom.

Vapourer (Rusty Tussock) Orgyia antiqua (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriidae) Jeremy Tatum