#Lambdina

[uncharismatic-fauna]

trick or treat!

You get a curve-lined looper moth (Lambdina fervidaria)!

[entomoblog]

Au Canada, un parc mythique amputé d’arbres multiséculaires

See on Scoop.it - Les Colocs du jardin

La responsable ? L’arpenteuse de la pruche (Lambdina fiscellaria), une espèce d’insecte qui décime le parc. Vorace, ce lépidoptère entaille les aiguilles qui virent au rouge et meurent, emportant rapidement l’arbre. D’autant que la sécheresse prolongée qui sévit dans l’ouest du Canada dope l’épidémie. C’est l’hécatombe. La firme de foresterie Blackwell estime que 160 000 arbres ont déjà été atteints. La mairie a demandé le retrait en urgence des arbres qui sont atteints, car ils peuvent tomber sur les passants.

  Par Eliott Dumoulin (Vancouver (Canada), envoyé spécial)

Publié hier à 05h15, modifié hier à 08h59

[grubloved]

phone died halfway through the light trap session tonight, but here's some of the creatures who showed up!

we got a LOT of these guys, june beetles! genus Dyplotaxis, species....uh... they're hard to ID. :/

not pictured: their VERY FUZZY undersides. hairy lil dudes.

two more cute beetles -- the one on the left might look like the same kind as the Dyplotaxis, but look closer! the eyes are bigger, the head is black instead of brown, the pronotum (the plate above the wings) is lighter and has spots, & its body proportions are slightly different. it's actually a Masked Chafer! probably Cyclocephala lurida.

on the right, we have a beetle from a different group! this is probably a ground beetle of some kind, with that thinner profile, more distinct waist and lined elytra (wing coverings). it was REALLY SMALL, too -- see how big the weave of the sheet is in comparison? i think it's probably Stenolophus ochropezus, a species so little that it doesn't have a common name.

then some non-beetle visitors! two moths, probably a Paler Diacme Moth on the left (Diacme elealis) and MAYBE a Curve-lined Looper Moth (Lambdina fervidaria) on the right ? they were cute.

[eurekamag--com]

The effect of storage on the nuclear polyhedrosis virus of the eastern hemlock looper, Lambdina fiscellaria fi

http://dlvr.it/P5Dqx7

[mothsofwv-blog]

I think this is a Hemlock Looper, Lambdina fiscellaria, 2015