2020 July 22

 

   Ron Flower writes:  Today Wednesday 22nd of July, out in the Saanich Peninsula at the corner of Wallace Drive and Newman Road there is a grain field that had hundreds of Cabbage Whites flying and mating.  Also while at the Red Barn Nora got this photograph of a beautiful moth:

 

Garden Tiger Arctia caja (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Nora Flower

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:   Today, July 22, on one Buddleia bush I saw a Mourning Cloak, 8 Lorquin’s Admirals, and a Western Tiger Swallowtail.  This was in Saxe Point Park around 10:30 a.m.

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Enypia packardata

2 Eulithis xylina

3 Hesperumia latipennis

1 Homorthodes hanhami

1 Iridopsis emasculatum

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Leucoma salicis

3 Panthea virginarius

1 Pyrausta perrubralis

1 Smerinthus ophthalmica/cerisyi

 

 

Hesperumia latipennis (Lep.: Geometridae)    Jochen Möhr

 

Pyrausta perrubralis (Lep.: Crambidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Panthea virginarius (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr 

 

Smerinthus ophthalmica Lep.: Sphingidae)  Jochen Möhr 

 

Enypia packardata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Leucoma salicis (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)  Jochen Möhr