2019 July 13

    It must be getting late in the season – Invert Alert is starting to receive pictures of grasshoppers.  Unfortunately, I’m not very good at identifying them, so I’m just making wild guesses at the moment, and they are probably quite wrong.  If anyone out there can help, please let us know.  If observers can get a glimpse of the colour of the hindwings of any grasshoppers they photograph, that would be a great help. The first of these was photographed at the Horticultural Centre of the Pacific (HCP), the second in View Royal, both on July 12.

Possibly Dissosteira carolina?? (Orth.: Acrididae)  Layla Munger

Possibly Camnula pellucida ?? (Orth.: Acrididae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

   Layla photographed a Lorquin’s Admiral at HCP yesterday:

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Layla Munger

 

   The Satyr Comma caterpillar that was preparing to pupate in yesterday’s posting has now pupated:

Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

1 Callizzia amorata

1 Hesperumia latipennis

2 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Leucoma salicis

5 Nadata gibbosa

1 Perizoma costiguttata

1 Pero mizon

2 Scopula quinquelinearia

2 Sicya crocearia 

1 Spilosoma virginica

Leucoma salicis (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Leucania or Mythimna sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

 

 

Spilosoma virginica (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae) Jochen Möhr

 

Spilosoma virginica (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae) Jochen Möhr

Chlorosea banksaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Pero mizon (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr