2020 September 4

 

   It has been a poor butterfly year, and there are almost none now in September, apart from a few Cabbage Whites.  I say “almost” none, for there are still a very few around.  Thus Jochen Möhr saw five Pine Whites simultaneously from his Metchosin property yesterday, as well as a Mourning Cloak, and Gordon Hart briefly saw a comma-like butterfly in his Highlands property, which, frustratingly, did not stay long enough to be identified.  He thought it was a little larger that a Green or Satyr Comma.  He also saw there a Cabbage White and a Woodland Skipper.

 

   Here is a male Pine White from Jochen’s property this morning. 

 

Pine White Neophasia menapia (Lep.: Pieridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Euxos difformis

1 Feltia jaculifera

1 Nemoria darwiniata

3 Neoalcis californiaria 

1 Xestia finatimis complex

 

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Xestia xanthographa (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Nemoria darwiniata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

   At his Highlands property on September 2 , Gordon Hart saw  2 Neoalcis californiaria and two Xanthorhoe sp.