2024 March 21

   Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of this woodling moth that flew into his living room in Saanich last night.   Moths of the genus Egira are known as “woodling”moths.  They are largely western moths, and they are among the first noctuid moths to be seen in Spring.  Egira hiemalis is the earliest, usually appearing in February.  E. curialis (below) and others follow later.

Egira curialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum