2020 April 29

 

  Jeremy Tatum writes:  Today I saw three Western Spring Azures at Tod Creek Flats, and one Cabbage White along Hunt Road, Central Saanich.  These are the first butterflies to be reported to Invert Alert since April 20.

 

   Mr E sends pictures of a sawfly of the genus Rhogogaster.

 

Sawfly Rhogogaster sp. (Hym.: Tenthredinidae)  Mr E

 

Sawfly Rhogogaster sp. (Hym.: Tenthredinidae)  Mr E

 

   Jochen Möhr’s  moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Acleris

6 Eupithecias

1 Feralia comstocki

1 Hyalophora euryalus

5 Melanolophia imitata

1 Nola minna

2 Perizoma curvilinea

1 Orthosia hibisci

1 Orthosia transparens

1 Phyllodesma americana (still same, still alive)

3 Xanthorhoe defensaria

 

 

Feralia comstocki (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Nola minna (Lep.: Nolidae) Jochen Möhr

 

Orthosia hibisci (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae) Jochen Möhr

Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae) Jochen Möhr

 

 Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae) Jochen Möhr

Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae) Jochen Möhr

 

 

Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae) Jochen Möhr