CLOSED: ID help on various....

No. 1
Damselfly - Maybe Stream Bluet (Enallagma exsulans)?

SOLVED: Wool Carder Bee (Anthidium manicatum)

No.2 a
This fellow was rather sluggish at the time of the photo shoot

This message was edited Jul 9, 2007 7:00 PM

No. 2b

No. 2c

SOLVED: Virginia Ctenucha Moth

No. 3


This message was edited Jul 7, 2007 10:05 AM

SOLVED: Plant Bug (Stenotus binotatus)

No. 4


This message was edited Jul 9, 2007 7:18 PM

SOLVED: Clouded Plant Bug (Neurocolpus nubilus)

No. 5a

This message was edited Jul 9, 2007 7:08 PM

No. 5b

SOLVED: pedilus collaris

No. 6

This message was edited Jul 7, 2007 10:59 AM

SOLVED: Female Ruby Meadowhawk

No. 7
Dragonfly 1

This message was edited Jul 7, 2007 10:03 AM

SOLVED: White Faced Meadowhawk

No. 8
Dragonfly 2

This message was edited Jul 7, 2007 10:02 AM

SOLVED: European Skipper


No. 9
A skippper but which one?

This message was edited Jul 7, 2007 10:15 AM

SOLVED: Northern Pearly Eye

No. 10
The last one, only underside of wings

This message was edited Jul 7, 2007 10:04 AM

Super nice shots, PC!!

Here's a few ..

Your #10 .. is definitely the Northern Pearly Eye (Enodia anthedon) > http://davesgarden.com/bf/go/52/

And your #3 .. looks to be the Virginia Ctenucha Moth > http://bugguide.net/node/view/63928

- Magpye

Thanks Magpye,

No. 10 has now been posted at DG BF

Yep No.3 looks like the Virginia Ctenucha Moth

#9....maybe the European Skipper

http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabambc/construct-species-page.asp?sp=Thymelicus-lineola

And your #9 .. looks extremely similar to the European Skipper (Thymelicus lineola) > http://bugguide.net/node/view/20638 .. and, here > http://davesgarden.com/bf/go/544/

- Magpye

Hah! .. We were workin' on the same bug, fly_girl. (heehee)

- Magpye

Glad you agree....you know how hard those Skippers are!

#8....Ruby Meadowhawk or maybe a Cherry-faced Meadowhawk, although he has a white face.......not sure, maybe a White-faced MH too.

http://www.wisconsinbutterflies.org/dragonflies/species/31

#7...Could be a White-faced Meadowhawk

http://www.cirrusimage.com/dragonfly_white-face.htm

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Your #6 .. bears quite an uncanny resemblance to the Red-necked False Blister Beetle (Asclera ruficollis) > http://bugguide.net/node/view/8650/bgpage ..

- Magpye

here a side shot on No.9

Let me chunk this atcha also, Milan .. about your #6: it also looks quite similar to a few of the Fire-Colored Beetles (Pyrochroidae), maybe in the genus, Pedilus ..

Oooo, it's that time of the nite that all of these bug vermin get to lookin' alike!
.. lol ..

G'nite you two ..

- Magpye

Thanks for the ID help.
As of now No. 3,6,7,8,9,10 are solved, 1,2,4&5 remain to be ID'd

#1 looks nearly the same as one I got today, Ischnura elegans Blue-taile Damselfly, except it only has one band on the tail.

http://www.gardensafari.net/english/picpages/ischnura_elegans.htm

I searched for Ischnura and found I. verticalis, but this one appears to have green eyes and a different tail pattern.

http://www.esc-sec.org/photo_archive/photo_archive6.htm

http://www.robsplants.com/critters/dragons.php

The one you mention has stripes around the abdomen, a female on this link

http://www.dragonhunter.net/gallery1.html

http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk/aol/image?invocationType=topsearchbox.imagehome&query=Enallagma+exsulans

Thanks wallaby,

after a bit further searching No.1 could be a Skimming Bluet (Enallagma geminatum) http://www.wisconsinbutterflies.org/damselflies/species/35
So many different bluets, I guess it will be close to impossible to positively ID with just a shot from above :)

#5 looks like a Clouded Plant Bug - I've just found them in my garden.

http://davesgarden.com/bf/go/841/
http://bugguide.net/node/view/96489

#4 looks like a Stenotus binotatus Plant Bug

Reference: http://bugguide.net/node/view/29579

#2 looks similar to these Wool Carder Bees
http://bugguide.net/node/view/7744

Also see the reference on this page
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/bees.html


Great shots!!



This message was edited Jul 8, 2007 8:31 PM

Panamon, there are many similar Damselflies, it can be difficult but the pattern on the tail is clear, if that can be found and the rest looks to match you might be lucky!

Take a look at the pics of Argia species at the bottom of the page, many are also similar.

http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/Images/Odonata/Odo_picts.html

I found the Int. Odonata Soc., this page gives google links to many species if you look under COENAGRIONIDAE

http://www.iodonata.net/

If the link goes to the home page, click on 'species list' at the left side, then the 3rd link down, North American Zygoptera.

Panamon, I am still so struck by the similarity to my Ischnura! So much that I took a look at some of the Ischnura images, and found one which is a close match but is a side view.

The tail markings are very similar, with a double blue band joined at the top, with a protrusion on the uppermost band of the two. Looking at the other blue parts at the top of the abdomen they do seem to be in the right places, although the pic is not the best to go on.

The black legs are also a match, many have more yellow legs with a black stripe. Try putting the images side by side.

Ischnura denticollis, Black-fronted Forktail

http://stephenville.tamu.edu/~fmitchel/damselfly/image/iden_2m3.htm

http://stephenville.tamu.edu/~fmitchel/damselfly/image/ischnura.htm

I found a pic that shows the top a little more, although the end of the tail pattern looks to be glaring from a flash. I'm trying to see those thinner blue stripes on the thorax at the top which yours show, not sure if it's the angle but most of them seem to have them!

http://www.aeshna.com/insects/odonata/Ischnura%20denticollis/ischnura%20denticollis%20001.htm

Thanks for the IDs Linda.

wallaby, "damsel/dragonflyonators" must have their work cut out and must have many disagreements on IDs between themselfs :)

Next time I'll get shots from several different angles if the bugger allows me to do that :)


I'll mark this thread as solved now.
Until next time when I go on bug hunt with my Macro lens mounted :)

Maybe I'll find some more aliens too :)