2022 May 06 morning

    Jochen Möhr set us a puzzle yesterday with photographs from Metchosin of the undersides of several moths – the geometry of the situation prevented him from getting his camera to the other side of the window to photograph the uppersides.  Libby Avis and Jeremy Tatum had a go at identifying them, and, considering how difficult it is to identify moths from their undersides alone, we came to remarkably good agreement – although our proposed identifications remain tentative.

Drepanulatrix?  Spodolepis?   (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

 

Drepanulatrix?  Spodolepis?  (Lep,: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

 

 

Triphosa?  Coryphista?  (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

 

 

Hypena?  (Lep.: Erebidae – Hypeninae)   Jochen Möhr

   Rather easier to identify was a Ceanothus Silk Moth laying eggs near Kemp Lake and photographed by Rosemary Jorna:

Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

Hyalophora euryalus (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Rosemary Jorna