2017 May 15

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  This pretty moth turned up at my Saanich apartment this morning.  It is the same species as the one shown by Ken Vaughan on the May 7 posting – Cyclophora dataria.  Moths in this genus are sometimes called “mochas”.  Their pupae are interesting in that they are formed in just the same way as the chrysalides of pierid and papilionid butterflies – head up, the cremaster (hooks at the tail end) embedded into a silken pad, and a single silken girdle around the waist.

 

Cyclophora dataria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   Mike Yip found this wolf spider yesterday while he was working in the garden.  Robb Bennett writes:  I’m pretty sure this is a female Alopecosa. The species we get here on the coast is Alopecosa kochi.

Alopecosa kochi (Ara.: Lycosidae)  Mike Yip