2019 July 25

  

   Lynda Dowling sends a photograph of a California Tortoiseshell from Happy Valley Road, July 23.

California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Lynda Dowling

 

   July 24/25 was a bonanza night for Jochen Möhr in Metchosin, with 40 individual moths of at least 20 species.  Here are a few of them:

 

Mouse Moth Amphipyra tragopoginis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Herpetogramma (probably thestealis)  (Lep.: Crambidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Emmelina monodactyla (Lep.: Pterophoridae) Jochen Möhr

 

Caripeta aequaliaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

Dasychira grisefacta (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae) Jochen Möhr

 

Nemoria darwiniata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

Eupithecia graefii (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Panthea virginarius (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 

Plemyria georgii   (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

   Layla Munger sends two photographs from Oak Bay,July 24.

 

Eristalinus aeneus (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Layla Munger

 

   Thanks to Annie Pang and Lincoln Best for identifying the bee below.

 

Female Melissodes microsticta (Hym.: Apidae)  Layla Munger