Lac St. Germain, Quebec
A nice place to visit in all seasons
Small Mocis Moth
The Small Mocis Moth or Striped Grass Looper (Mocis latipes) is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from North America (from southern Ontario and Quebec to Florida, west to Arizona and north to Minnesota south through Central to South America.
Red-humped caterpillar
The Red-humped Caterpillar (Schizura concinna) is a moth of the Notodontidae family. It is found from southern Canada to Florida and California.
Blue Mud Dauber
The blue mud dauber is a metallic blue species of mud dauber wasp that preys primarily on black widow spiders. It does not build a nest, but uses nests abandoned by other mud dauber wasps. Like other mud daubers, it is rarely aggressive. Blue mud dauber wasps are generally considered beneficial, because they help to regulate the population of black widow spiders.
Snowy Tree Cricket
Oecanthus fultoni, also known as the snowy tree cricket or thermometer cricket, is a species of tree cricket from North America. Before 1960, the name Oecanthus niveus was wrongly applied to this species.
Franklin's Bumblebee
Franklin's bumblebee, Bombus franklini, is an endangered bee of the western United States. It is known only from a 190-by-70-mile (310 by 110 km) area in southern Oregon and northern California, between the Coast and Sierra-Cascade mountain ranges. It was last seen in 2006.
Io Moth
The Io Moth (Automeris io) is a very colorful North American moth in the Saturniidae family. It ranges from the southeast corner of Manitoba and in the southern extremes of Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick in Canada, and in the US it is found from North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, east of those states and down to the southern end ...more ↓
Hickory Tussock Moth
Lophocampa caryae, the Hickory Tussock Moth or Hickory Halisidota, is a moth in the family Arctiidae. Like most species in its family, the caterpillars acquire chemical defenses from their host plants (Weller et al. 1999). The behaviour and aposematic coloration of the larvae (caterpillars) also suggests chemical protection in this stage, although they have ...more ↓
