2020 September 15 afternoon

 

   Here are two pictures – an upperside and an underside – by Sharon Godkin of Nepytia phantasmaria,

floundering or even attempting to oviposit in the grass.

 

Nepytia phantasmaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Sharon Godkin

 

Nepytia phantasmaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Sharon Godkin

 

   Ian Cooper sends a photograph of a grasshopper – one of many species in the genus Melanoplus!

 

Melanoplus sp.  (Orth.: Acrididae)  Ian Cooper

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin his morning:

 

1 Euxoa sp.

1 Dryotype opina

1 Fishia illocata

1 Gazoryctra mathewi

1 Homorthodes sp.

1 Lacinipolia pensilis

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Lithomoia germana (same as previously)

2 Neoalcis californiaria

1 Noctua pronuba

6 Pleromelloida cinerea

1 Tetracis, probably pallulata

3 Xanthorhoe defensaria

 2 Xestia finatimis/ infimatis complex

 

Gazoryctra mathewi  (Lep.: Hepialidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Fishea illocata (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Fishea illocata (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Euxoa sp (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 

Homorthodes sp Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr