2019 July 3

 

   Here’s another moth from Jochen Möhr in Metchosin, July 2:

 

Probably Zale duplicata (Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

   and lots more today, July 3:

2 Biston betularia in cop.

1 Eulithis xylina

1 Hesperumia latipennis

1 Homothodes hanhami

2 Iridopsis emasculatum

1 Lacinipolia cuneata

2 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Oligocentria semirufescens (under the wing of S. cerisyi)

4 Nadata gibbosa

1 Panthea virginarius

1 Cabera erythemaria

1 Smerinthus ophthalmica or cerisyi  (same individual as yesterday and the day before.  It has not budged.)

 

Eulithis xylina (Lep. Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Homorthodes hanhami (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

Iridopsis emasculatum (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Iridopsis emasculatum (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Oligocentria semirufescens (Lep.: Notodontidae)

Jochen Möhr

Lacinipolia cuneata (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 

Panthea virginarius (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

Biston betularia (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

  Probably Cabera erythemaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Smerinthus cerisyi (Lep.: Sphingidae)

Oligocentria semirufescens (Lep.: Notodontidae)

Jochen Möhr

 

Ephestiodes gilvescentella  (Lep.: Pyralidae)   Jochen Möhr

 

If anyone can identify this one, please let us know:

 

Unidentified micro Jochen Möhr

 

   Here is a micro reared from thistle (found on Cirsium edule but readily fed on C. arvense) in Coppermine Road, Sooke.

Udea turmalis (Lep.: Crambidae)  Jeremy Tatum