2019 October 16

 

    Jeff Gaskin writes:  Today, Oct 16  I saw a Cabbage White in the Gorge Park community garden.  Also, if you look on eBird for Oct. 13, 8:40 ,  I believe ,  Randy Dzenkiw saw a Painted Lady at Whiffin Spit on that day.

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning.    Tetracis jubararia/pallulata  and Drepanulatrix secundaria/monicaria  are two pairs that can be very difficult to separate, because the variation within a species seems to be greater than the difference between them, and a lot also depends on state of wear.  Viewers, I hope, will forgive us if we don’t always identify them to species.  The Tetracis shown on October 6 is guaranteed jubararia – it was reared from caterpillar on Snowberry.   T. pallulata is a conifer feeder.

 

 

Tetracis jubararia/pallulata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Tetracis jubararia/pallulata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Drepanulatrix secundaria/monicaria  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen  Möhr

 

Eupithecia tripunctaria (Lep.: Geometridae)

Sunira decipiens (Lep.: Noctuidae)

Drepanulatrix secundaria/monicaria  (Lep.: Geometridae)

Jochen Möhr

 

   Mr E found this spider inside a residence on Prospect Lake Road on October 15:

 

Steatoda grossa (Ara.: Theridiidae)  Mr E

 

Steatoda grossa (Ara.: Theridiidae)  Mr E

 

Steatoda grossa (Ara.: Theridiidae)  Mr E

 

   Jody Wells forwards a photograph from C.D. Mazoff of a tick on the face of a Brewer’s Blackbird.  We cannot tell from the photograph exactly which species of tick it is.  In a recent paper, seven species of tick were recorded from passerine birds in Canada – six of them from the genus Ixodes, and one from Haemaphysalis.   The tick will probably drop off when it is engorged.

 

Tick  (Ixo.: Ixodidae) and Brewer’s Blackbird 

Euphagus cyanocephalus (Pas.: Icteridae)   C.D.Mazoff