2019 June 28

 

   Here’s another moth from Jochen Möhr in Metchosin yesterday:

 

Protitame subalbaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Ann Tiplady photographed these bugs hatching from an egg mass on Fireweed in her garden.   Later (second photograph) she found similar bugs on Red Flowering Currant.  I believe they are pentatomids, but if anyone out there has a better idea, please let us know.

 

Probably pentatomid bugs  (Hem.: Pentatomidae)  Ann Tiplady

 

Probably pentatomid bugs  (Hem.: Pentatomidae)  Ann Tiplady

 

  Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a difficult moth from Saanich.  As yet, we don’t have a certain identification, though it probably belongs to the genus Euxoa¸ a large noctuid genus in which the variation within species is often greater than the variation between species.

 

Probably Euxoa sp.  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Cheryl Hoyle