Thursday: 7 May 2009
 |  Clinging to an inside wall at night. Not so great for photography. Despite the feathery antennae, this is a fishfly, and probably a spring fishfly, Chauliodes rastricornis. Furthermore the feathery antennae do identify it as a male. Females have serrate antennae. We’ve seen what I thought at the time to be a male summer fishfly, C. pectinicornis. That was somewhere around May 20 2006, so a couple of weeks later than this sighting. And we’ve also seen a more distant cousin, dark fishfly, Nigronia serricornis. That one looks to be a female. |
Finals are winding down, and I should have an opportunity for a long walk today. In the past three days we’ve had a bit over two inches of rain, with springy-type thunderstorms. The understory is now completely enclosed and alarmingly green.
