2016 April 19

   Annie Pang sends a photograph of  Harmonia axyridis – a species introduced from Asia into both North America and Europe, and now one of our most-often encountered ladybird beetles.  It has been given so many names that I (that’s Jeremy Tatum) have taken to calling it the “Many-named Ladybird Beetle”, although it is more often called the “Multi-coloured Asian Ladybird Beetle”.  The spotting is variable.  I usually recognize it by the black W on its thorax.

Harmonia axyridis (Col.: Coccinellidae)  Annie Pang

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a typical double-humped cocoon of a plutellid moth, found on Snowberry at Mount Douglas Beach Park, April 19.

Euceratia securella (Lep.:  Plutellidae)    Jeremy Tatum

   He continues:  There were two California Tortoiseshells and a Mourning Cloak on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 4:30 pm. April 19.