2022 September 23 morning

Here are several  recent insect photographs from Ian Cooper, together with a repeat of a photograph from August 25 for comparison.   First, the Drone Fly Eristalis tenax.  Note the black hourglass shape.

 

Eristalis tenax (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Next, for comparison, a repeat of Ian’s August 25 photograph of a male Eristalis arbustorum.  The two eyes of the male touch each other.

Male Eristalis arbustorum (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Now a photograph taken yesterday of a female of the same species.  The female’s eyes do not quite touch, and the pattern is different.

 

Female Eristalis arbustorum (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Now three photographs, from different angles, of a very different-appearing Eristalis – Eristalis flavipes.  “Flavipes” means yellow feet”, as you will see in the second and third photographs.

 

Eristalis flavipes (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

 

 

Eristalis flavipes (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

Eristalis flavipes (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Lastly from Ian, two more syrphids, a grasshopper and a moth:

 

Helophilus sp.  (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

Syritta pipiens  (Dip.: Syrphidae)  Ian Cooper

Melanoplus sp.  (Orth.: Acrididae)  Ian Cooper

Udea profondalis (Lep.: Crambidae)  Ian Cooper

 

Lynda Dowling sent the caterpillar photograph below to Gordon Hart, who forwarded it to Invert Alert:

Eyed Hawk Moth Smerinthus ophthalmica (Lep.: Sphingidae)

Lynda Dowling

 

Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of a moth from Metchosin last night:

 

Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr