2022 May 29

     Jochen Möhr  (Metchosin) writes:  After several days of nothing, this morning a

Litholomia napaea:

 

Litholomia napaea (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Jeremy Tatum writes:  On May 26 I showed a photograph of an egg of the geometrid moth Coryphista meadii.   Today the egg hatched.  Here is the empty egg shell:

 

Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum

 

Here is the tiny first instar caterpillar.  Like many youngsters, it was exceedingly active and it wouldn’t stay still for a decent photograph.

 

Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum

   As soon as I saw that the egg had hatched I went up to Mount Tolmie to get a fresh Mahonia leaf for the young caterpillar to feed upon.  With a pair of scissors I snipped off the first decent-looking fresh leaf that I saw, and I hurried home.  Only when I looked at the underside of this leaf did I see that it had on it another egg of Coryphista meadii!  So now I’ll have two Coryphista caterpillars to look after.

 

Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum