2018 April 20 evening

 

    Jochen Moehr has been photographing lots of exciting moths in Metchosin.  Here are a few recent ones.  More to follow tomorrow!

 

Feralia deceptiva (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

Hydriomena manzanita (Lep.: Geometridae)    Jochen Moehr

 

Orthosia praeses  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

Lithophane innominata (Lep.: Noctuidae)   Jochen Moehr

 

Melanolophia imitata (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Moehr

 

 

   Jochen had someone help in his garden, who found a number of noctuid pupae while he was digging up some thistles.  It is not easy to identify moths below Family level from their pupae, though I think there’s a fairly high probability that these are pupae of the European Large Yellow Underwing moth Noctua pronuba

 

Noctuid pupae    Jochen Moehr