2105 June 25

   Devon Parker writes:  This big boy is hanging out in the garden right now. Can you tell
me what he is please?  Jeremy Tatum replies:  Yes, certainly!  It is a ten-lined June beetle Polyphylla sp. probably crinita.

Ten-lined June Beetle Polyphylla crinita

(Col.: Scarabaeidae)

Devon Parker

   Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of two European (Essex) Skippers from Quick’s Bottom, June 23, and a Western Pondhawk from Tod Inlet, June 22.

 European (Essex) Skippers Thymelicus lineola (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Aziza Cooper

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 Western Pondhawk Erythemis collocata (Odo.: Libellulidae) Aziza Cooper

   Jeremy Tatum shows photographs of two Nycteola frigidana, reared from caterpillars found at Munn Road.

Nycteola frigidana (Lep.: Nolidae) Jeremy Tatum

Nycteola frigidana (Lep.: Nolidae) Jeremy Tatum

Gordon Hart writes:  Back at home it is a week for large moths – a Polyphemus Moth, Antheraea polyphemus, was fluttering around, and then, last evening, we saw a hawk moth nectaring on the petunia baskets but it was too dark for pictures . Today I almost stepped on one. It was still alive so I put it on one of the flower baskets where it stayed a while for a few pictures.

Polyphemus Moth Antheraea polyphemus (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Gordon Hart

Sphinx perelegans (Lep.:  Sphingidae)  Gordon Hart