2019 May 10 evening

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  6:45 pm, Mount Tolmie.  One Propertius Duskywing just outside the reservoir; one Painted Lady basking on the reservoir; one Painted Lady on the road next to the Jeffery Pine.

 

  Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of a bumblebee, May 9, summit of Mount Wells.  Thanks to Annie Pang for identfying it as Bombus appositus, or the White-shouldered Bumblebee.

 

White-shouldered Bumblebee Bombus appositus (Hym.: Apidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  Today, May 10, and yesterday, May 09, there was a Mourning Cloak at Panama Flats.

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moth count at his Metchosin home, May 10:

 

4 Eupithecia sp.               

2 Anticlea vasiliata

1 Apamea cinefacta

3 Coryphista meadii

1 Egira crucialis

1 Eupithecia cretaceata

1 Hyalophora euryalus

 5 Lobophora nivigerata

1 Lophocampa maculata

1 Perizoma curvilinea

1 Tyria jacobaeae

1 Venusia obsoleta

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria            

 

and some photographs of some of them:

 

Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Zale minerea (Lep.:  Erebidae – Erebinae) Jochen Möhr

 

Zale duplicata (Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae)  Jochen Möhr

Eupithecia cretaceata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

   Rosemary Jorna writes: I have another spider from our deck, Kemp Lake area May 10.

 

Platycryptus californicus (Ara.: Salticidae)  Rosemary Jorna