2020 July 27

 

 Thanks yet again to Libby Avis for a lot of help with today’s identifications.

 

  Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning, plus two recent crane flies

1 Callizzia amorata 

1 Campaea perlata

1 Caripeta divisata

1 Eupithecia sp.

4 Hesperumia latipennis 

1 Nemoria darwiniata

1 Plemyria georgii

1 Protitame subalbaria

1 Sphinx perelegans

2 Sicya crocearia 

1 Ypsilopha canariella  

 

 

Alucita montana (Lep.: Alucitidae)  Jochen Möhr

Campaea perlata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Caripeta divisata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Plemyria georgii  (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Nemoria darwiniata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Ypsolopha canariella (Lep.: Plutellidae) Jochen Möhr

Sphinx perelegans (Lep.: Sphingidae) Jochen Möhr

Sphinx perelegans (Lep.: Sphingidae) Jochen Möhr

Smerinthus ophthalmica (Lep.: Sphingidae) Jochen Möhr

Male probably Tipula paludosa (Dip.: Tipulidae) Jochen Möhr

Female probably Tipula paludosa (Dip.: Tipulidae) Jochen Möhr

   Gordon Hart sends photographs of moths and a fishfly from the Highlands district:

 

 

Campaea perlata (Lep.: Geometridae) Gordon Hart

Eulithis xylina (Lep.: Geometridae) Gordon Hart

Unidentified (Lep.: Crambidae) Gordon Hart

Perizoma curvilinea (Lep.: Geometridae) Gordon Hart

 Eupithecia (probably annulata) (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

Protochauliodes spenceri (Neu.: Corydalidae) Gordon Hart

Pero (possibly morrisonaria) (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

   Wendy and Gerry Ansell write:  Today, Monday July 27, we saw 6 Pine Whites and 1 Lorquin’s Admiral by Beaver Lake.  Those were our first Pine Whites of the year.