2014 May 23 afternoon

 

   Sonia Voicescu writes:  More sightings at Rithet’s Bog! I was doing some restoration work there on Sunday and from the Fir Glen parking lot to the wet meadow area of the bog I saw the following:
2 Cabbage Whites, 19 Ringlets, 1 Western Spring Azure.

Ringlet or Large Heath Coenonympha tullia (Lep.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae)

Sonia Voicescu

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a small geometrid moth reared from a caterpillar found last year.  The moth emerged today and was released at University of Victoria.  I don’t know whether it is Cabera erythemaria or C. exanthemata.

Cabera erythemaria/exanthemata(Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum