2022 July 14 morning

    Jeremy Tatum sends pictures of two moths and a caterpillar:

Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)

  Jeremy Tatum

 

Ypsolopha canariella (Lep.: Ypsolophidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Ypsolopha canariella (Lep.: Ypsolophidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   The Y. canariella was reared from a caterpillar found on Snowberry.  The moth was formerly classified within the Family Plutellidae (and it certainly looks like a plutellid to me!), but a new family, Ypsolophidae, has more recently been erected to include it.

   Val George writes:  This moth, Idaea dimidiata, was on the wall of my Oak Bay house this morning July 14. On July 12 I walked the railway track at Cowichan Station. As well as the more common butterflies, there were two Margined Whites; neither was prepared to pose for a photo. The male Common Whitetail dragonfly was more cooperative.

Idaea dimidiata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George

 

Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Val George