2018 September 15

 

   Continuing the saga on the Triphosa haesitata / Coryphista meadii  identification problem, Ron Flower sends a picture, from Goldstream Park last week, of one of the forms of Coryphista meadii  that cannot (we hope!) be confused with T. haesitata.  Would that all meadii were of this form!

 

 

Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae)   Ron Flower

 

 

 

 

 

   Val George writes:  A couple of days ago, Sept 12, this Chlorochroa Stink Bug was in my Oak Bay garden.  I suspect it is a “sp.”   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Agreed, but most likely C. uhleri rather than sayi.

 

Stink Bug Chlorochroa (probably uhleri) (Hem.: Pentatomidae)  Val George

 

   Jeremy Tatum notes a few Cabbage Whites today at Maber and Martindale Flats.

 

   Alanah Nasadyk writes:  I found this handsome moth in the spikemoss going up towards Sugarloaf Mountain in the Sooke Hills.  Libby Avis kindly identified it for us as Mesogona olivata, a moth that occurs in dry Garry Oak type habitat, Garry Oak being one of the larval foodplants.

 

Mesogona olivata (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Alanah Nasadyk