2019 November 17

 

   Butterfly!   The butterfly season is not yet over!   It’s a dark, soggy, rainy November day – not the sort of day to look for butterflies.  Yet Anne-Marie Hart and Tina Akhavan have just seen a California Tortoiseshell sunning (!) on a Manzanita bush at the Highlands Community Hall on Finlayson Arm Road.

 

California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Tina Akhavan

 

   Jeremy Tatum shows two Winter Moths from his Saanich apartment.

 

Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum

 

Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning.  No photographs taken.

 

3 Drepanulatrix sp.  

1 Epirrita autumnata

7 Operophtera sp.

1 Sunira decipiens (same individual at same spot for three days now)