2024 June 24

Invertebrates spotted by Ian Cooper at Colquitz River Park before dawn, June 23 2024

Woodlouse Hunter Spider – Dysdera crocata  (Ara.: Dysderidae)   Ian Cooper

Dicyphus discrepans (Hem.: Miridae)   Ian Cooper

 Strawberry Root Weevil – Otiorhynchus ovatus (Col.: Curculionidae)
Ian Cooper

Nut Leaf Weevil, Strophosoma melanogrammum (Col.: Curculionidae)   Ian Cooper

Jumping Bristletail  Pedetontus saltator. (Microcoryphia – Machilidae)   Ian Cooper

  Male Snipe Fly. Probably Chrysopilus sp. (Dip.: Rhagionidae)    Ian Cooper

   Marie O’Shaughnessy writes:  Outerbridge Park tour Sunday June 23rd 2024, for butterflies and dragonflies.  Butterflies were:
1 Western Tiger Swallowtail
2 Cabbage Whites

  Dragonflies were:
1 male Cardinal Meadowhawk.

Four-spotted Skimmer  Libellula quadrimaculata   (Odo.: Libellulidae)   Marie O’Shaughnessy

Sympetrum  sp. (Odo.: Libellulidae)   Marie O’Shaugnessy

Marie also photographed this exuvia.  Dr Rob Cannings rises to the challenge and writes:
The exuvia is definitely an aeshnid by its form. The view doesn’t show the characteristics required for a foolproof identification, but it has the short labium of a Rhionaeschna (and it just looks like one to me – hard to describe why). Because we are at the height of the appearance of R. multicolor and R. californica, emergence is probably mostly over, my guess is that this is a Blue-eyed Darner exuvia. The fact that this species is the most common darner around here in the summer just adds to the high probability. And the local Aeshna species have hardly begun emergence yet.

Probably Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor (Odo.: Aeshnidae)
Marie O’Shaughnessy

Marie photographed this Painted Lady at Mount Tolmie:

Painted Lady  Vanessa cardui  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

Jeremy Tatum shows a small moth reared on blackberry from a caterpillar found at Swan Lake.  Thanks to Dr Jason Dombrowskie, who writes:  I’m 95% sure that is a female Archips rosana.

 Probably Archips rosana  (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jeremy Tatum