2019 August 28

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin yesterday morning:

 

1 Coryphista meadii

1 Ennomos magnaria

5 Eulithis xylina

1 Feltia jaculifera

1 Lacinipolia pensilis

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Nemoria darwiniata

1 Neoalcis californiaria 

1 Pero mizon

2 Pyrausta perrubralis

 

 

Eulithis xylina (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

1 Eulithis xylina

8 Lacinpolia pensilis

1 Nemoria darwiniata  

4 Neoalcis californiaria

1 Noctua pronuba

1 Pero mizon

1 Pyrausta perrubralis

1 Ypsolopha canariella

 

   Jochen sends photographs of two Neoalcis californiaria.  One is typical; the other is rather unusual.

 

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

   Jochen found this one in his bathroom:

 

Platyptilia carduidactyla (Lep.: Pterophoridae)  Jochen Möhr

   Cheryl Hoyle sends some photographs from View Royal.  The first one was photographed on August 12; the others on August 27.

 

Dr Rob Cannings identifies the fly as a robber fly, Neomochtherus willistoni — common around here in late summer.  He writes:  Note the rather long, triangular ovipositor, longer than in Machimus, a genus of similar looking robber flies.

 

Neomochtherus willistoni (Dip.: Asilidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

 

 

Melanoplus sp. (probably sanguinipes or femurrubrum or similar) (Orth.: Acrididae)

Cheryl Hoyle

 

Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)  Cheryl Hoyle

   Jeremy Tatum writes: My guess at the dragonfly below was Aeshna palmata, but Dr Cannings was kind enough to put me at my ease by saying that females of this species and Rhionaeschna multicolor can be hard to tell apart from photographs.  He points to the pale areas beside the base of the T-spot on the top of the face, which make it more likely that the photograph is of the latter species.

 

 

Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

   Cabbage Whites and Woodland Skippers are still common, but other butterflies are becoming scarce. Gordon Hart saw a Pine White at Pedder Bay on August 26, and a Lorquin’s Admiral at his Highlands property today.