2019 April 22

 

   Jochen Möhr writes:

This morning’s assemblage:

10 Venusia obsoleta

4 Hydriomena manzanita

2 Anticlea vasiliata

2 Cissusa indiscreta

1 Melanolophia imitata

1 Drepanulatrix monicaria

1 Eupithecia sp.

I attach a picture of the A. vasiliata and one each of the C. indiscreta

 

Jochen adds:  I see quite a few Sara Orangetips, some here at home and regularly when I drive towards town via Esquimalt Lagoon and Ocean Boulevard.

 

Cissusa indiscreta (Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae)  Jochen Möhr

Cissusa indiscreta (Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae)  Jochen Möhr

Anticlea vasiliata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying the Cissusa.  Libby writes from Port Alberni:  We got our first Feralia comstocki and Anticlea vasiliata last night. Also saw our first Sara Orangetips at the Somass Estuary at the weekend. And a Grey Hairstreak from the Alberni Valley, April 20th 2019.

Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Rick Avis