2023 July 20

   Here is a Pearly Underwing Moth Peridroma saucia.  The caterpillar was shown on June 28 evening.  The pupal stage lasted only three weeks.

Peridroma saucia (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Val George writes:  This long-horned beetle (Centrodera spurca) was on the wall of my Oak Bay house yesterday, July19. It was trapped there because one of its hind legs was caught in the spider thread visible in the photo.

Yellow Douglas-fir Borer Centrodera spurca (Col.: Cerambycidae) Val George

Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of a curious moth from Metchosin.  It seems to be a male Malacosoma – but it has none of the usual transverse lines of our two familiar species.  I can only think (writes Jeremy Tatum) that it is an unusual “ab”  (aberration) of one of the two – but which one,  I cannot tell.

Malacosoma sp.  (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jochen Möhr