2019 September 27

 

   Ron Flower writes:  Yesterday, September 26, we photographed two moths at McIntyre Reservoir and a wasp at Outerbridge Park.

 

  Jeremy Tatum writes:  The moths are easy – but the ichneumonid wasp isn’t!  It bears more than a passing resemblance to Limonethe mauratur.  It’s even possible that that’s what it is.

 

Autographa californica (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Ron Flower

 

Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Ron Flower

 

Probably Limonethe maurator (Hym.:  Ichneumonidae)  Ron Flower

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Drepanulatrix sp.

5 Ennomos magnaria

1 Noctua pronuba

1 Plemyria georgii

6 Pleromelloida cinerea

1 Sunira decipiens

1 Schizura ipomoeae

1 Tetracis sp.

 

   Not all moths are as easy to identify as Ron’s  two above.  While the first of Jochen’s below is certainly Plemyria georgii, the second is more difficult.  It is Drepanulatrix  – but which one?  It could be D. secundaria, but, writes Jeremy Tatum, I’m going to go for  Drepanulatrix monicaria.

 

Plemyria georgii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Drepanulatrix (probably monicaria)  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   And if Drepanularix is tricky,  Eupithecia is downright hard!  Jeremy Tatum believes that the one below is probably Eupithecia annulata.

 

Eupithecia (probably annulata) (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum