2018 March 30

 

   Ron Flower writes:  We went to Gore Park yesterday, Thursday May 29. No butterflies yet, but we got this nice moth on an oak branch.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  This is Epirrhoe plebeculata, and I have been trying to find its caterpillar for years.  It is supposed to feed upon Galium, but I suspect that this may be wrong.  Please, anyone, if you see this moth, follow it to see if it oviposits anywhere – and let me have the eggs so that I can hatch and rear them!

 

Epirrhoe plebeculata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Ron Flower

 

   Jochen Moehr sends a picture of Orthosia praeses from Metchosin.

Orthosia praeses (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr