2020 November 28

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin yesterday and today:

 

Hypena californica (Lep.: Erebidae – Hypeninae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Next, an unusually well-patterned Operophtera. I think it is probably O. brumata, writes Jeremy Tatum, but there is a slight chance that it might be O. occidentalis, so I’ll play it safe and label it Operophtera sp.

 

Operophtera sp.: (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   We don’t know what this next one is, but it’s too nice a photograph to leave out!   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I think I can say with some certainty that it’s either a member of the huge gelichiid genus Chionodes or it isn’t

 

What?   Jochen Möhr