2019 August 19 – Reposting of August 8

 

   Charlene Wood sends a picture of a spectacular Catocala aholibah from her house exterior yesterday afternoon (North Jubilee/Camosun neighbourhood).

 

Catocala aholibah (Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae) Charlene Wood

 

 

   Here’s a moth from Jochen Möhr’s Metchosin house last night, plus photographs of the wasp that has been butchering his moths!  The wasp was kindly identified for us by Sean McCann, who writes:  They often gather carrion for their larvae.

 

Lacinipolia pensilis (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 

Vespula pensylvanica (Hym.: Vespidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Vespula pensylvanica (Hym.: Vespidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

   The caterpillar found on Gumweed during the August 4 Butterfly Walk along Island View Beach (see posting for August 5 morning) has now grown a bit, and is found to be Heliothis phloxiphaga.

 

Heliothis phloxiphaga (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum