2018 September 4

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I found this bug on my bed this morning.  But it is not a Bed Bug.  It is a Western  Conifer Seed Bug.

 

Western  Conifer Seed Bug Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hem.: Coreidae) Jeremy Tatum

 

   Here is another bunch of moth eggs, found at Rithet’s Bog on a seedhead of Reed Canary Grass.  They are almost certainly the same species as the eggs shown on September 1 evening, namely the European Large Yellow Underwing Moth Noctua pronuba.  The September 1 eggs were white – they had only just been laid.  The ones below are almost black – they are just about to hatch.

 

Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)

Jeremy Tatum

 

Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Today I saw a pristine fresh Lorquin’s Admiral, at King’s Pond, Ascot Drive.  The last one reported to Invert Alert was on August 20.

 

   And Nathan Fisk sends photographs of a Red Admiral from Montague Harbour, Galiano Island, 

September 1.  The last adult reported to Invert Alert was on July 15 – although Jeremy Tatum found a young caterpillar on September 1.

 

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanto (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Nathan Fisk

 

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Nathan Fisk

 

   Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin:  I constantly have at least one Pine White in view, sometimes up to two of them – never more simultaneously.  Also a single Cabbage White once or twice a day, and one or two Woodland Skippers.  This morning I also saw a Grey Hairstreak.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I don’t know when this species was last reported to Invert Alert!  Probably some time in June, I would think.

 

 

Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Jochen Möhr