2020 February 15 afternoon

 

   Jochen Möhr photographed another Eupithecia annulata/olivacea in Metchosin this morning.  He made two colour-renderings of it in the hope that this may help with the identification.  Jeremy Tatum writes that he thinks it looks more like annulata than olivacea, but seeing it this early in the year suggests that olivacea is more likely.  I think we’ll  just have to label this as another either/or.

 

Eupithecia annulata/olivacea (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Eupithecia annulata/olivacea (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

   Libby Avis writes:  We stopped at the Buckley Bay rest stop yesterday on the way to Courtenay, and we found six Egira hiemalis. (I think they prefer a drier habitat that we get here), one Hypena californica and an undetermined Eupithecia.