2020 September 9

 

   Joechen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Drepanulatrix sp.   

1 Eupithecia sp.

1 Euxoa difformis 

2 Feltia jaculifera 

1 Fishia illocata

1 Nemoria darwiniata

10 (!) Neoalcis californiaria 

1 Nepytia phantasmaria

1 Tetracis jubararia or pallulata

2 Xestia finatimis/infimatis complex

 

Jochen also reports eight Pine Whites at various Metchosin locations.  Also, an antlion, suggested by Libby Avis to be probably Myrmeleon exitialis.

 

Antlion Myrmeleon exitialis (Neo.: Myrmeleontidae) Jochen Möhr

 

Nemoria darwiniata (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

Tetracis (probably pallulata, but just possibly jubararia) (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Nepytia phantasmaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   Here’s a Yellow Woolly Bear caterpillar from Island View Beach:

 

Spilosoma virginica (ep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jeremy Tatum