2019 December 7

 

    Mr E sends photographs of a small slug that he found on Prospect Lake Road on December 6.  Can any viewer identify the species?

 

Unidentified slug   Mr E

 

Unidentified slug   Mr E

 

 

Unidentified slug   Mr E

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  As part of our continuing efforts to sort out the winter moths (Operophtera sp.), Jochen Möhr has photographed a series of them in Metchosin.   Some are fairly straightforward; most of them are tough!   I *think*  (but it is only a think) that the first one below may be O. occidentalis, and the rest are probably O. brumata.  In the first one below, note the dark streak that goes from the centre of the forewing down to the middle of the outer margin.  I have labelled the photographs below according to my best efforts – but I can’t guarantee 100 percent that they are all absolutely correct.

 

Operophtera occidentalis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

(A possible trace of occidentalis?)

 

 

Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

(A possible trace of occidentalis?)

 

Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr