August 19 – Reposting of August 11 

Cheryl Hoyle sends some photographs.   She writes:  The wasp, spider and ladybird beetle photos were taken in View Royal in my garden and the Woodland Skipper photos were taken at Gardenworks in Colwood.

 

Ichneumonid wasp (Hym.: Ichneumonidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

 

Araneus diadematus (Ara.: Araneidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

 

Harmonia axyridis (Col.: Coccinellidae)

 

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin August 10:

 

Callizzia amorata

Campaea perlata

Cosmia praeacuta

Dichagyris variabilis

Lacinipolia pensilis

Nadata gibbosa

Nemoria darwiniata

Panthea virginarius

Perizoma costiguttata

Perizoma curvilinea

Schizura ipomoeae

Sicya macularia /crocearia

 

Schizura ipomoeae (Lep.: Notodontidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Cosmia praeacuta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Lacinipolia sp. Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 

   Jochen has been getting some horror pictures of wasps dismembering moths and spiders at his moth location in Metchosin.  The wasp, identified by Sean McCann, is Vespula pensylvanica.  The spider was identified by Robb Bennett as a theridiid, but he feels it is not possible to further with certainty.

 

Vespula pensylvanica (Hym.: Vespidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Theridiid spider (Ara.: Theridiidae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

 

Vespula pensylvanica (Hym.: Vespidae) dismembering a spider

Later, the wasp flew away with the body.

Jochen Möhr

 

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin August 11:

 

1 Amorbia cuneanum

1 Campaea perlata

2 Dichagyris variabilis

1 Drepana arcuata

1 Eulithis xylina

4 Oligia divesta

1 Perizoma costiguttata

1 Perizoma curvilinea

1 Sabulodes aegrotata

1 Schizura ipomoeae

1 Sicya macularia/crocearia

 

Dichagyris variabilis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Campaea perlata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

Oligia divesta (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 

Sabulodes aegrotata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

Schizura ipomoeae (Lep.: Notodontidae) Jochen Möhr

 

   Aziza Cooper writes:  On Thursday, August 8, Ren Ferguson and I went up to Mount Tuam where she had seen large numbers of butterflies two weeks earlier. After the hot, dry weather most of the thistles had gone to seed, and the numbers were down. We found about four Zerene Fritillaries and ten or so Common Woodnymphs, as well as several Woodland Skippers and one flyby comma.

 

Zerene Fritillary Speyeria zerene  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Zerene Fritillary Speyeria zerene  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Aziza Cooper