July 27

 

   Gordon Hart sends a picture of Sphinx perelegans from his Highlands garden:

 

Sphinx perelegans (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Gordon Hart

 

   Ann Nightingale sends pictures of an interesting catch in a mist net at the Rocky Point Bird Observatory bird-banding station.  This is one of the giant sawflies (Cimbicidae), which Ann correctly identifies (of course!)  as the Elm Sawfliy, Cimbex americana.   

 

Giant Elm Sawfly Cimbex americana (Hym.: Cimbicidae)  Ann Nightingale

 

Giant Elm Sawfly Cimbex americana (Hym.: Cimbicidae)  Ann Nightingale

 

 

   Annie Pang reared a Mouse From Gorge Park Gardens.  She fed it successfully on lettuce until it pupated, and today the adult Mouse Moth emerged and posed for photographs.   The Mouse Moth is not only mouse-coloured, but it will often scuttle around like Mus musculus rather than take flight.

 

The Mouse Amphipyra tragopoginis (Lep.: Noctuidae)   Annie Pang

 

The Mouse Amphipyra tragopoginis (Lep.: Noctuidae)   Annie Pang

 

 

   Zeke Gilmore spotted a rather uncommon skipper, identified by Norbert Kondla as a male Dun Skipper, in Upper Lantzville today, and got his Dad to photograph it.   A valuable record of a species that is officially “At Risk”.

 

Male Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Scott Gilmore

 

 

 

   Annie Pang sends pictures of a male and a female Pine White.

 

Male Pine White Neophasia menapia (Lep.: Pieridae)  Annie Pang

 

Female Pine White Neophasia menapia (Lep.: Pieridae)  Annie Pang

 

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  That’s all I can manage today!  Others as soon as we can identify them.