2020 July 12

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Callizzia amorata 

1 Clemensia umbrata

2 Drepanulatrix secundaria

1 Gabriola dyari

1 Hesperumia latipennis

3 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Lophocampa maculata 

1 Panthea virginarius

 

Drepanulatrix secundaria  (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

Panthea virginarius (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Clemensia umbrata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae – Lithosiini)

Jochen Möhr

   As mentioned on July 8, Tracy Hueppelsheuser of the BC Ministry of Agriculture in Abbotsford is interested in records of crane flies of all species.  Here are two photographed by Jochen in Metchosin.  We may not immediately be able to supply identifications, but, if we ever do so, the images on this site will be accordingly labelled.

 

Crane fly (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Jochen Möhr

Crane fly (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Jochen Möhr

   Rosemary Jorna photographed the moth below on Babbington Hilll, July 11.  Some of these crambid moths are very similar and difficult to identify.

 

Probably Eudonia sp. (Lep.: Crambidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Unidentified moth (Lep.: Crambidae)  Rosemary Jorna

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Earlier this year Jochen Möhr found a caterpillar on the wall of his house – photograph below:

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Jochen gave the caterpillar to me, and it pupated almost immediately.  The adult moth emerged today and it proved to be a colour variety of Neoalcis californiaria quite unlike any I had seen before:

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum

   Jeremy Tatum shows two photographs of a Sheep Moth that emerged from its pupa today.  It was released in Uplands Park, where the species is common.  The caterpillar feeds on Ocean Spray, Snowberry or Nootka Rose.

 

Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Sheep Moth Hemileuca eglanterina (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Jeremy Tatum

More tomorrow…