2019 August 1 morning

 

   Jereny Tatum writes:  At 4:00 pm yesterday afternoon there was a West Coast Lady and a Painted Lady on the Mount Tolmie reservoir, and two Painted Ladies around the Jeffery Pine.  The West Coast Lady is a rather worn specimen, and may be difficult to recognize, though it is still well able to fly.  It has been there for a few days.

 

  Here are some moth pictures from yesterday morning from Jochen Möhr in Metchosin.

 

Campaea perlata  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Nemoria darwiniata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

Clemensia umbrata (Erebidae – Arctiinae – Lithosiini) Jochen Möhr

 

 

Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Note the small fourth tooth of the hindwing outer margin, and small dark elongated spot in the cell.

 

 

 

Sicya crocearia (Lep,: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

A somewhat exaggerated version of the typical pose.

 

Pero mizon  (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

   Over the past few weeks we have managed to accumulate several photographs of unidentified Hymenoptera.  Owing to the efforts of Sean McCann and Libby Avis, to whom we are most grateful, we now have partial identifications of some of them.  I repeat the photographs here, this time labelled.

 

Prionyx (probably canadensis) (Hym.: Sphecidae) Layla Munger July 15

 

Prionyx (probably canadensis) (Hym.: Sphecidae) Ren Ferguson July 26

 

Hym.: Pompilidae    Cheryl Hoyle July 17

 

Hym.: Ichneumonidae   Cheryl Hoyle July 28

 

Hylaeus sp. (Hym.: Colletidae)  Cheryl Hoyle July 30

 

Eumenes (Hym.: Vespidae – Eumeniinae) Cheryl Hoyle

 

Layla Munger sends a photograph of a bug and a very exciting moth – both identified for us by Libby Avis, who identifies most of our moths for us.

Nymph of Banasa sp. (Probably dimiata  or sordida)   (Hem.: Pentatomidae)  Layla Munger

 

Catocala relicta (Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae) Layla Munger

More later today…