2019 July 18

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   Hundreds of Essex Skippers in the fields inland from Island View Beach – but no Ringlets at the moment.  All the Teasels at McIntyre Reservoir have been cut down.  There will be no butterflies there this year.

 

   Cheryl Hoyle sends some photographs taken on July 17 at the Gorge Park Community Gardens:

Polyphylla crinita (Col.: Scarabaeidae) Cheryl Hoyle

Syritta pipiens (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

   Cheryl  found this spider in View Royal on July 11.  Thanks to Dr Robb Bennett for identifying it as a Lynx Spider, Oxyopes scalaris, the only member of the Oxyopidae so far recorded in British Columbia.

 

Lynx spider Oxyopes scalaris (Ara.: Oxyopidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

 

 

Rosemary Jorna sends some photographs  taken on July 17 from the Kemp Lake area:

 

Coccinella septempunctata (Col.: Coccinellidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

   This next insect looks very like an ichneumonid indeed – although it is keeping its antennae rather still.  The antennae of an ichneumonid are constantly in motion.  It didn’t deceive Rosemary, who recognized it as a beetle.  Scott Gilmore identifies it as Necydalis laevicollis.

 

  

Necydalis laevicollis  (Col.: Cerambycidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Rosemary Jorna