2019 August 26 afternoon

 

   A very nice find by Kirsten Mills at McIntyre reservoir last week – a caterpillar of the Bedstraw Hawk Moth Hyles gallii.    I was wondering if one of them might turn up sometime, since there have been three reports of the adult moth on Invertebrate Alert this year.   One of the larval foodplants is Bedstraw,  Galium sp.   An extra letter “l” seems to have slipped into the scientific name of the moth.  It  also feeds on Epilobium.

 

Bedstraw Hawk Moth Hyles gallii (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Kirsten Mills

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  There were still several Ringlets and Purplish Coppers in the grassy fields inland from Island View Beach today, and of course lots of Woodland Skippers and Cabbage Whites.