2019 July 29 morning

 

  Here’s a recent photograph from Jochen Möhr in Metchosin.  It is Iridopsis, of which there are two similar species, I. larvaria and I. emasculatum.  I think it depends a bit on how “wiggly” the cross lines are. On the whole I believe Jochen’s is more likely Iridopsis emasculatum.

 

Iridopsis (probably emasculatum) (Lep,: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Two soldier beetles photographed by Cheryl Hoyle, July 27th on Colquitz River Trail:

 

Rhagonycha fulva (Col.: Cantharidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

 

   Samantha Hatfield sends a nice miscellany from her mint garden.  When she mentioned her “mint” garden I correctly guessed, before looking at the photograph, that one of them would be the colourful little moth Pyrausta californicalis, whose caterpillar feeds on mint.

 

 

Pyrausta californicalis (Lep.: Crambidae)  Samantha Hatfield

 

  I believe the eggs shown below are those of a pentatomid bug.

Bug eggs (Hem.:  Pentatomidae)  Samantha Hatfield

 

European Paper Wasp Polistes dominula (Hym.: Vespidae)  Samantha Hatfield

 

 

 

 

Jochen Möhr has been seeing a lot of Silver-spotted Tiger Moths Lophocampa argentata in Metchosin recently.  He obtained a series of interesting photographs illustrating the range of variation.