April 11 afternoon

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I saw just a single Western Spring Azure butterfly along the length of the Panhandler Trail off Munn Road this afternoon.  But here are a couple of moths.

 

Agonopterix alstroemeriana (Lep.: Depressariidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   This is a micro from Europe whose caterpillar occurs in such large numbers on Poison Hemlock Conium maculatum that it can devastate a large clump of this very poisonous plant.  It can be found particularly on the large hemlock clumps in Panama Flats.   Clas Alströmer was a student and colleague of Linnaeus.

Habrosyne scripta (Lep.: Drepanidae – Thysanurinae) Jeremy Tatum

 

      Reared on Salmonberry from East Sooke Park.  Ecloded (emerged) today.