2025 September 8 morning
Here are a few more insects photographed by Aziza Cooper during yesterday’s VNHS Butterfly Walk at McIntyre reservoir and Island View Beach.
Honey Bee Apis mellifera (Hym.: Apidae) Aziza Cooper
European Paper Wasp Polistes dominula (Hym.: Vespidae)
Aziza Cooper
Tule Bluet Enallagma carunculatum (Odo.: Coenagrionidae)
Aziza Cooper
Unknown geometrid caterpillar (Lep.: Geometridae) Aziza Cooper
It is on Rosa sp. (not R. nutkana which has straight spines).
Jeremy Tatum later took a close up of the caterpillar, which he is going to try to rear to adulthood, at which time we may know its identity. He writes: I think it highly probable that it is Eupithecia sp., and just possibly (but not at all certainly) E. maestosa.
Unknown geometrid caterpillar (Lep.: Geometridae) Jeremy Tatum
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