2019 August 2

    Jeremy Tatum writes:  Yesterday afternoon (August 1) at 4:15 pm there was just one butterfly on the Mount Tolmie reservoir – the West Coast Lady that has been there for several days.  On the area just outside the entrance to the  reservoir there was an Anise Swallowtail, and there was a Painted Lady near the Jeffery Pine.

   Another miscellany from Cheryl Hoyle, which we shall post if and when we manage to identify them!

We start with a remarkable photograph of a moth caught in flight!

 

Apamea amputatrix? (Lep.: Noctuidae) Cheryl Hoyle

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Since I first labelled the above moth with great confidence, and without a question mark, Apamea amputatrix, I have had correspondence with Libby Avis, and my confidence has wavered enough that I have just added a question mark to the above label. This moth bears more than a passing resemblance to a European moth called the Common Rustic Mesapamea secalis.  This is not a wild flight of fancy – some of the commonest moths in the Victoria area are – or probably are – of European origin.  Further photographs of moths resembling this one would be very welcome.

Oecogonia novimundi  (Lep.: Symmocidae) Cheryl Hoyle

Cuckoo wasp, probably Chrysis sp. (Hym.: Chrysididae)  Cheryl Hoyle

Scotophaeus blackwalli (Ara.: Gnaphosidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

Aeshna sp. (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

Jumping spider (species?)  (Ara.: Salticidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

   Thanks to Dr Robb  Bennett for the identification of the spider below:

Probably Enoplognatha ovata (Ara.: Theridiidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

Lorquin’s Admiral Limenitis lorquini (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

   Aziza Cooper writes: Yesterday, August 1, at Burgoyne Bay Provincial Park on Salt Spring Island, I saw a Common Woodnymph and three Woodland Skippers.

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Common Woodnymph Cercyonis pegala (Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae)  Aziza Cooper