2022 February 12

    Jeremy Gatten writes that so far this year he has seen the following at his Central Saanich house: Phigalia plumogeraria, Agonopterix alstroemeriana, Hydriomena nubilofasciata, Eupithecia annulata (best guess really), and Hypena californica.

   Val George writes:  There were three of these guys at the door of the Nature House at Swan Lake yesterday.   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Val is right in referring to them as “guys” – the females are wingless.  I wonder if there are any females at the Nature House – probably not, because the males will have flown there, attracted by the lights.  The females will be crawling up the tree-trunks.  The male in the photograph is hiding its magnificent bipectinate antennae.

Phigalia plumogeraria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George