2022 August 1

    Gordon Hart sends photographs of a bug that he found on a potted geranium at his Highlands home.   We cannot be certain, but we think this may be a nymph of a Stilt Bug (Berytidae).

Maybe a nymph of a Stilt Bug (Hem.: Berytidae)  Gordon Hart

Maybe a nymph of a Stilt Bug (Hem.: Berytidae)  Gordon Hart

 

Ren Ferguson sends a photograph of a moth photographed today on Salt Spring Island:

 Hesperumia sulphuraria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Ren Ferguson

 

Jody Wells sends photographs of a

Caterpillar  on a  path near Glencoe Cove park July 29^th

Common Whitetail ..Low Tide.. area accessed from  Helmcken Park July  20^th

Eight-spotted Skimmer July 27^th  Pendray’s out near Victoria Airport

Smerinthus ophthalmica (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Jody Wells

Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Jody Wells

Eight-spotted Skimmer Libellula forensis (Odo.: Libellulidae)

   Jochen Möhr sends photographs from Metchosin today.  If any viewer can identify the crane fly, please do let us know.  [Later:  This appeal worked!  Libby Avis has identified it as Tipula vittatipennis.]

Macaria lorquinaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Macaria lorquinaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jochen Möhr

Crane fly Tipula vittatipennis (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a noctuid moth from Swan Lake.  Libby Avis suggests that it may be a species from the large and difficult genus Lacinipolia.

Probably Lacinipolia sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum