2022 May 15

    Jeremy Tatum shows a caterpillar found in a Douglas Fir near Mount Tolmie yesterday.

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

Jochen Möhr sends photographs of the moths and crane fly from Metchosin below.   Thanks to Libby Avis for the identifications.

Eupithecia rotundopuncta (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Hypena humuli (Erebidae – Hypeninae)  Jochen Möhr

Hypena californica (Lep.: Erebidae – Hypeninae)  Jochen Möhr

Hypena californica (Lep.: Erebidae – Hypeninae)  Jochen Möhr

Tricyphona sp. (Dip.: Tipulidae)   Jochen Möhr

2022 May 14 morning

    On May 10 Aziza Cooper photographed two Western Spring Azures along the Lochside Trail near Blenkinsop Lake.

Female Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Aziza Cooper

Female Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  with damselfly

 Aziza Cooper

Jochen Möhr photographed these moths at his Metchosin home:

Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Eupithecia ravocostaliata/nevadata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Eupithecia rotundopuncta (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr)

2022 May 12

    Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of Euceratia securella from Mount Tolmie today.  Closely related to the well-known E. castella, its caterpillar, like that of castella, feeds on Snowberry.

Euceratia securella (Lep.: Plutellidae)  Jeremy Tatum

2022 May 11

    Jeremy Tatum writes that there was a California Tortoiseshell on the Mount Tolmie reservoir yesterday evening at 5:30 pm, and Gordon Hart writes that there were two Western Spring Azures on his Highlands property this morning.

  Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of the pug Eupithecia ravocostaliata from his Metchosin

 property this morning.

Eupithecia ravocostaliata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

   Jeremy Tatum sends  photographs of the beetle Calligrapha californica from Panama Flats this afternoon.

Calligrapha californica (Col.: Chrysomelidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Calligrapha californica (Col.: Chrysomelidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   Rosemary Jorna sends a photograph of the recently-named new bee species Bombus vancouverensis.   Formerly thought to be part of B. bifarius, since 2020 it has been recognized as a distinct species.

Bombus vancouverensis (Hym.: Apidae)  Rosemary Jorna

2022 May 10

    Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of Xanthorhoe defensaria from Metchosin:

Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

   Gordon Hart sends a photograph of a mining bee from the Highlands:

Mining bee Andrena sp. (Hym.: Andrenidae)  Gordon Hart

And, to complete this miscellany, Jeremy Tatum sends a picture of a snail from Carey Road,Victoria:

Cepaea nemoralis (Pul.: Helicidae)  Jeremy Tatum