2020 August 8

 

   Gordon Hart photographed the moth below at his Highlands home on August 4.  Since we could see only the underside of the wings, I despaired (writes Jeremy Tatum) as to whether we could identify it.  For Libby Avis, however, nae bother!  Libby writes:  “That one’s easy – for once!

Ceratodalia gueneata. We’ve had five this week in Port Alberni.  One of the few moths that always sit with their wings up. I would probably find it hard to identify it from the top side.”

 

Ceratodalia gueneata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

 

     Jochen Möhr had a big haul in Metchosin  last night.  Thanks to Libby for help with the identifications.

 

1 Biston betularia 

1 Callizzia amorata

1 Campaea perlata

1 Coryphista meadii

1 Dasychira grisefacta 

1 Dichagyris variabilis

2 Lacinipolia strigicollis 

1 Lophocampa argentata 

3 Neoalcis californiaria 

1 Panthea virginarius

1 Perizoma curvilinea

1 Pero sp.

1 Syngrapha rectangula

1 Amorbia cuneata

1 Thallophaga (probably taylorata)

and one butterfly – a Painted Lady.

 

 

Dasychira grisefacta (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Dichagyris variabilis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Biston betularia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Coryphista meadei (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Perizoma curvilinea (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Panthea virginarius (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Pero (maybe morrisonaria) (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Syngrapha rectangula (Noctuidae – Plusiinae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Syngrapha rectangula (Noctuidae – Plusiinae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Thallophaga (probably taylorata) Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Amorbia cuneanum (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Gordon Hart’s moths from Highlands, August 6:

 

The first is one of those pugs that are awfully difficult to identify.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I’ll label it possibly Eupithecia annulata – though it could well be something else!

 

Eupithecia (possibly annulata) (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

 

Eulithis xylina (Lep.: Geometridae)

plus one of those little crambids that we despair of identifying.

Gordon Hart

 

Nematocampa resistaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

 

Catoptria latiradiella  (Lep.: Crambidae)  Gordon Hart