2015 October 11

   A bug and two ladybird beetles from Jeremy Tatum’s Saanich apartment yesterday and today.  Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying the beetle as the Multicoloured Asian Ladybird Beetle.  [I have heard so many English names for this Asian species that I call it the Many-named Ladybird!.]

Western Conifer Seed Bug  Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hem.: Coreidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Multicoloured Asian Ladybird Harmonia axyridis (Col.: Coccinellidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Multicoloured Asian Ladybird Harmonia axyridis (Col.: Coccinellidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 Libby Avis sends some nice pictures from Port Alberni, October 7 and 8.

Ceranemota fasciata (Lep.: Drepanidae – Thyatirinae)  Libby Avis

Orthosia mys (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Libby Avis

Agrotis ipsilon (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Libby Avis

Hemichroa crocea (Hym.: Tenthredinidae)  Libby Avis

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I saw a Cabbage White flying at Maber Flats today (October 11).  Also there were lots of Banded Woolly Bears – and a distressing number seemed to have been stomped on – more that one would expect from random accident.

   Scott Gilmore writes from Upper Lantzville:  It was nice to find a Maple Spanworm (Ennomos magnaria) just outside our backdoor today. Jeremy Tatum comments:  Lovely moth!  I hadn’t heard the common name “Maple Spanworm” before – but apparently that is the name used in forestry circles.  I wonder if the caterpillar actually eats maples?  The only macro moth caterpillar I have ever found on maple is the Winter Moth.  E. magnaria is usually on willow.

Maple Spanworm Ennomos magnaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Scott Gilmore