2018 August 22 morning

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a female Vapourer Moth, also known as Rusty Tussock Moth. The Women’s Rights movement seems to have made little progress in this species.

Female Vapourer Orgyia antiqua (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae) Jeremy Tatum

 

   Here is an egg mass of the tent caterpillar moth Malacosoma californicum.

Malacosoma californicum (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

 

    Jochen Möhr has been seeing and photographing many exciting moths at his moth trap in Metchosin.  One night recently he found

25 (!) Tolype distincta

9 Neoalcis californiaria

2 Ennomos magnaria

1 Perizoma costiguttata

1 Apatensis nevadensis (a new one for here!)

1 Nemoria darwiniata

 

   Here are some of Jochen’s recent photographs.  As ever, we are grateful to Libby Avis for help with the identifications.

 

Euxoa difformis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Hydriomena speciosata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Cosmia praeacuta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Euxoa difformis  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr