2020 August 6

 

   The moth below was brought into the Swan Lake Nature House and photographed by Coral Forbes.  It was misidentified by Jeremy Tatum (i.e. by me!) and identified properly by Claudia Copley (who wrote the paper on the species in British Columbia) as Noctua pronuba  – a rather dark specimen:

 

Noctua pronuba  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Coral Forbes

   A Perizoma curvilinea from Jochen Möhr in Metchosin:

 

Perizoma curvilinea (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr