2018 October 10

 

    Jeremy Tatum writes:   Yesterday there were three Tetracis (formerly Synaxis) jubararia  at the Swan Lake nature house.   Alas!   I didn’t have my camera with me – so I drove all the way home to fetch the camera.  The moths were still there when I got back.  Alas!   No card in my camera!   So I hastened back to the car park to drive back home again – but then to my rescue appeared Aziza!  She had her camera with her, and she even had a card in it, so she photographed two of them.  The third one had by then lost patience and it had flown away.

 

Tetracis jubararia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Tetracis jubararia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Aziza Cooper

 

 

   Aziza writes:  Yesterday, Monday October 8 in Centennial Park I observed two banana slugs six or seven feet up a big cedar on the dry bark. Any idea why? Have you or has anyone seen this behaviour before?  

 

Banana Slugs Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae)   Aziza Cooper

 

   Rosemary Jorna writes:  This small insect was on our picnic table (Kemp Lake area) yesterday afternoon, October 9.

 

 

 Larva of lacewing (Neu.: Chrysopidae)   Rosemary Jorna