2020 September 25

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  Yesterday, September 24, I found a rather late Woodland Skipper in the flower gardens in Beacon Hill Park.  It looked very bedraggled and wet no doubt due to the rainy weather  we’ve been getting.  There were no other butterflies in the park.  Jeremy Tatum adds:  I saw a Cabbage White flying over Richmond Road yesterday shortly after some very heavy rain.

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Eupithecia sp.

5 Ennomos magnaria 

3 Dryotype opina

1 Lithomoia germana 

2 Noctua pronuba

2 Plemyria georgii

2 Pleromelloida cinerea 

1 Sunira decipiens

 

Dryotype opina (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Sunira decipiens (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

   Ian Cooper photographed the weevil below along the Galloping Goose Trail on September 20.  Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying it as a Clover Weevil  Sitona hispidulus.

 

Clover Weevil Sitona hispidulus (Col.: Curculionidae)  Ian Cooper

Clover Weevil Sitona hispidulus (Col.: Curculionidae)  Ian Cooper