Layla Munger sends some pictures from Oak Bay.

The first shows a Sand Wasp.  That one was easy, and I was going to ignore the tiny fly at the bottom – until Layla managed to identlfy it!

 

Sand wasp Bembix americana (Hym.: Crabronidae)

Frit fly Thaumatomyia glabra (Dip.: Chloropidae)

Layla Munger

 

Crab spider Misumena vatia (Ara.: Thomisidae)  Layla Munga

 

Next is a Wool Carder Bee¸ in the act of carding wool from a woolly leaf with which to line its nest,

 

Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum (Hym.: Megachilidae)  Layla Munger

 

Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum (Hym.: Megachilidae)  Layla Munger

 

Annie Pang sends a photograph of a Yellow-fronted Bumblebee.  [The “front” in such animal names as Yellow-fronted Bumblebee and White-fronted Goose, etc., refers to the “frons – frontis” or forehead.]

 

 

Bombus flavifrons (Hym.: Apidae)  Annie Pang

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Callizia amorata

One each  of:

Eulithis xylina

Hydriomena marinata /californiata

Lophocampa argentata

Nadata gibbosa

Pero mizon

Pyrausta perrubralis

Schizura ipomoeae

Hesperumia latipennis

 

 

Hydriomena marinata/californiata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

Pero mizon (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Schizura ipomoeae (Lep.: Notodontodae) Jochen Möhr

 

Hesperumis latipennis (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

That will have to be enough for today!