2015 September 12

 There are still quite a lot of Cabbage Whites around, and Jeff Gaskin saw a Woodland Skipper in the community garden in Gorge Park on September 11.

Here is a moth from a caterpillar which Jeremy Tatum found and reared on Snowberry in the spring.  The moth emerged a few days ago, and Jeremy is grateful to Libby Avis for identifying it as Dryotype opina.   This moth has appeared just once before on this site – Bill Katz’s photograph on 2013 October 7 – and I see that Libby identified that one for us, too.  Perhaps next time we will recognize it! 

Dryotype opina (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum