2019 July 31 afternoon

 

   Scott Gilmore sends photographs of a caterpillar of Hesperumia latipennis from Bluffs Park, Galiano Island, May 3rd 2019.

Hesperumia latipennis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Scott Gilmore

Hesperumia latipennis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Scott Gilmore

   Here is a photograph of a Western Bumblebee by Laura Matthias on Mount Tuam:

 

 

Western Bumblebee Bombus occidentalis (Hym.: Apidae) Laura Matthias

 

And two by Ren Ferguson at Blackburn Nature reserve on Salt Spring Island:

Western Bumblebee Bombus occidentalis (Hym.: Apidae) Ren Ferguson

 

Western Bumblebee Bombus occidentalis (Hym.: Apidae) Ren Ferguson

 

And one from Rosemary Jorna in the Kemp Lake area:

Bombus flavifrons (Hym.: Apidae) Ren Ferguson

 

   Thanks to Annie Pang and Lincoln Best for the bee identifications.

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

1 Biston betularia

2 Campaea perlata

2 Clemensia umbrata

1 Coryphista meadii

2 Dichagyris variabilis

1 Drepanulatrix sp. 

2 Eulithis xylina

2 Hesperumia sulphuraria

2 Homorthodes hanhami

6 Lophocampa argentata

1 Nadata gibbosa

1 Nemoria darwiniata

4 Neoalcis californiaria

1 Pero mizon

1 Sicya macularia 

 

Jochen writes:  This brings the total tally for July here to 585 individuals recorded from 111 species.

Pictures of some of them tomorrow…