2019 August 31

 

     Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Drepanulatrix sp.

2 Ennomos magnaria

2 Eulithis xylina

1 Feltia jaculifera

14 Lacinipolia pensilis

8 Neoalcis californiaria

2 Noctua pronuba

1 Panthea virginarius

1 Tetracis (pallulata?)

2 Tolype distincta

 

   Jochen sends a picture of a plume moth (Pterophoridae), hard to identify with certainty but most probably Emmelina monodactyla, which resembles the early German monoplane the Rumpler Taube.

 

Probably Emmelina monodactyla (Lep.: Pterophoridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Jochen also sends photographs of a chrysalis of a Painted Lady, suspended from one of his gardening tools.

 

Painted Lady  Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)

Jochen Möhr

 

 

Painted Lady  Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)

Jochen Möhr

 

   Jeremy Tatum reports that there were still two adult Painted Ladies at the top of Mount Tolmie yesterday evening August 30.