2019 May 26 evening

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Eupithecia

1 Agrotis vancouverensis

1 Apamea sordens

1 Lacinipolia patalis

3 Nadata gibbosa (same as yesterday)

1 Panthea virginarius (from day before)

1 Drepanulatrix secundaria

Apamea sordens (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Agrotis vancouverensis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Lacinipolia patalis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Drepanulatrix secundaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  If you drive north up the Trans-Canada Highway from Victoria, and turn left at Koksilah Road (after Dougan Lake and before Duncan), at the corner of the TCH and Koksilah Road is a large stand of lupins on the side.  Bill Savale and I spent a very few minutes today at a small corner of the lupins, and we saw three Silvery Blues (1 male, 2 females), and we found two ova (one already hatched, one not yet hatched) on the lupins.  I think if someone were to spend ten or fifteen minutes there s/he might find quite a few of these butterflies.  It may also be worth looking at other roadside lupin patches elsewhere.

 

   We saw about eight Margined Whites along the railway line north of Cowichan Station