2022 February 14

    Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of a pug from his kitchen window in Metchosin yesterday.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  With its prominent elongated discal spot, a zigzag pale subterminal line, a dashed line along the termen of both wings, and a chequered fringe, this could be

either    i)   Eupithecia annulata

or         ii)   not

Alas, these pugs can be too difficult for us ordinary mortals to identify with certainty, though annulata is at least a reasonable guess.

Eupithecia (perhaps annulata) (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr