2018 December 10

 

   Jochen Möhr has sent a series of photographs of Winter Moths from Metchosin, including some interesting undersides, which we don’t often see.  I think they are mostly the European Operophtera brumata, except for one, which I (Jeremy Tatum) think is probably our native O. occidentalis.

 

Operophtera brumata (Lep.:  Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

 

 

Operophtera brumata (Lep.:  Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

 

 

Probably Operophtera occidentalis (Lep.:  Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr