2019 December 2
Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin:
In the last two mornings, I had no customers on my wall any more.
I started daily recordings on May 8, 2019. So here is the summary for the season.
Total # of species recorded: 148
| May | June | July | August | September | October | November | |
| 08 – 31 | 01 – 30 | 01 – 31 | 01 – 31 | 01 – 30 | 01 – 31 | 01 – 30 | |
| # of observations | 244 | 140 | 584 | 350 | 374 | 128 | 159 |
| # of species | 41 | 41 | 73 | 50 | 36 | 22 | 9 |
| % of total # of species | 28 | 28 | 49 | 34 | 24 | 15 | 6 |
But this morning, December 2, Jochen writes:
Looks like I am back in business: This morning 3 Operophtera sp.
So…, the question arises, writes Jeremy Tatum, which Operophtera? Is it the European O. brumata? Or the native O. occidentalis (formerly lumped with O. bruceata)? They are all very well patterned. O. brumata is often quite plain, but by no means all of them are. I cannot be 100 percent sure of any of these three, but my best guess is that the first two are probably brumata, while I think the third has a good claim to be O. occidentalis.
Jochen’s are from Metchosin. I wonder what species one gets in other rural areas, such as Highlands.
Operophtera (probably brumata) (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
Operophtera (probably brumata) (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
Operophtera (probably occidentalis) (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
