2022 September 1

    There are few butterflies around now – mostly Cabbage Whites and Woodland Skippers. Here’s a Woodland Skipper photographed by Aziza Cooper at Fort Rodd Hill today, September 1.

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Aziza Cooper

   Val George writes: Every morning for the past week there have been one or two – probably the same individuals – of these Drepanulatrix moths on the wall of my Oak Bay house.

   Drepanulatrix is a difficult genus including several species for which the variation within a species sometimes seems to be greater than the variation between species.  Libby Avis and Jeremy Tatum think that Val’s moth most closely resembles D. secundaria.

 

Drepanulatrix (probably secundaria) (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George