2019 July 14

 

  

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Eulithis xylina

1 Hesperumia latipennis

2 Hormothodes hanhami

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

plus a few micros, only one of which was within camera reach.  It looks very like one that Jochen posted on July 11, and which we labelled Eudonia sp. (probably commortalis) – so that’s how I’ll label this one!

Eudonia sp. (probably commortalis) (Lep.: Crambidae)

Jochen Möhr

 

   Cheryl Hoyle sends a miscellaneous collection.  First, a Common Whitetail from the Abkhazi Gardens:

 

Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia (Odo.: Libellulidae) Cheryl Hoyle

 

   Next, two photographs of spittlebugs.  I can’t be sure of the exact species, but in spite of the difference in colour, I expect the most likely species in both photographs is Philaenus spumarius.

 

Spittle Bug, most likely Philaenus spumarius (Hem.: Cercopidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

Spittle Bugs, most likely Philaenus spumarius (Hem.: Cercopidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

   I can’t say much about the next one, other that that it is some sort of a bug, probably a mirid, of which there are numerous species.

 

Probably a mirid bug  (Hem.: Miridae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

The next, I think, is a greenbottle of the genus Lucilia.

Lucilia sp. (Dip.: Calliphoridae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

  Next, two Banana Slugs, and a small unidentified snail:

 

Banana Slugs Ariolimax columbianus (Pul.: Arionidae) Cheryl Hoyle

 

   Lastly, a gall made by a cynipid wasp (or, more accurately, made by an oak in response to the presence of a cynipid wasp grub), probably Cynips mirabilis.

 

Cynips mirabilis (Hym.: Cynipidae)  Cheryl Hoyle