2020 July 24 morning

   Jochen Möhr’s moths, and a butterfly, from Metchosin yesterday morning, July 23:

1 Callizzia amorata

1 Choristoneura rosaceana

1 Cyclophora pendulinaria

2 Eulithis xylina

1 Gabriola dyari

1 Hydriomena californiata or marinata

2 Hesperumia latipennis

1 Homorthodes hanhami

1 Lacinipolia cuneata

1 Nadata gibbosa

2 Panthea virginarius

2 Sicya crocearia

1 Smerinthus ophthalmica

Callizzia amorata (Lep.: Uraniidae)  Jochen Möhr

Choristoneura rosaceana (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jochen Möhr

Cyclophora pendulinaria Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Smerinthus ophthalmica (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Jochen Möhr

Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides (Lep.: Hesperiidae) Jochen Möhr

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning, July 24:

3 Callizzia amorata

4 Eulithis xylina

1 Homorthodes hanhami

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Nadata gibbosa

3 Panthea virginarius

2 Sicya crocearia

1 Smerinthus ophthalmica

1 Nepytis umbrosaria

Nepytia umbrosaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

2020 July 23 afternoon 

  Jeremy Tatum writes:   A few weeks ago I had the idea that I’d like to post pictures of both sexes of both species of our local Malacosoma, so I reared six caterpillars of each.  Darn it, but all the M. disstria  turned out to be females, so I didn’t get a guaranteed picture of a disstria male.  So, here is my incomplete (and hence not all that useful!) set. (One of the caterpillar photographs is Rosemary’s)

Malacosoma californicum (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Rosemary Jorna

Malacosoma disstria (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Female Malacosoma californicum (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Female Malacosoma disstria (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Male Malacosoma californicum (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jeremy Tatum

More tomorrow…

2020 July 23 morning

   Val George writes:  July 22, I saw my first Pine Whites of the year.  There were 6 or 7 flying around the tops of a Douglas Fir stand at Witty’s Lagoon.

Scott Gilmore got these photos of a water mite from Battleship Lake in Strathcona Provincial Park on the 20^th July.   Dr Heather Proctor tells us that it is in the Superfamily Hygrobatoidea, and probably in the Family Pionidae, and possibly genus Piona.  In order to be more certain, she would need to see the genital plates, which might be visible in a ventral view, but are often obscured by other internal organs.

Invert Alert has had very few photographs of aquatic invertebrates.  We hope more photographers will rise to the challenge.

Possibly Piona (Acari: Pionidae)  Scott Gilmore

Possibly Piona (Acari: Pionidae)  Scott Gilmore

Possibly Piona (Acari: Pionidae)  Scott Gilmore

2020 July 22

   Ron Flower writes:  Today Wednesday 22nd of July, out in the Saanich Peninsula at the corner of Wallace Drive and Newman Road there is a grain field that had hundreds of Cabbage Whites flying and mating.  Also while at the Red Barn Nora got this photograph of a beautiful moth:

Garden Tiger Arctia caja (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Nora Flower

   Jeff Gaskin writes:   Today, July 22, on one Buddleia bush I saw a Mourning Cloak, 8 Lorquin’s Admirals, and a Western Tiger Swallowtail.  This was in Saxe Point Park around 10:30 a.m.

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

1 Enypia packardata

2 Eulithis xylina

3 Hesperumia latipennis

1 Homorthodes hanhami

1 Iridopsis emasculatum

1 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Leucoma salicis

3 Panthea virginarius

1 Pyrausta perrubralis

1 Smerinthus ophthalmica/cerisyi

Hesperumia latipennis (Lep.: Geometridae)    Jochen Möhr

Pyrausta perrubralis (Lep.: Crambidae)  Jochen Möhr

Panthea virginarius (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr 

Smerinthus ophthalmica Lep.: Sphingidae)  Jochen Möhr 

Enypia packardata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Leucoma salicis (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)  Jochen Möhr

2020 July 21

   Ren Ferguson reports the finding by David Caudwell of a Great Arctic at the top of Mount Bruce on Salt Spring Island last week.

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

1 Campaea perlata

1 Drepanulatrix secundaria

2 Eulithis xylina

1 Gabriola dyari

1 Hydriomena californica/marinata

2 Hesperumia sulphuraria

2 Lacinipolia strigicollis

1 Malacosoma californicum

1 Nadata gibbosa

1 Panthea virginarius

1 Sicya crocearia 

Eulithis xylina (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

Gabriola dyari (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Campaea perlata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Malacosoma californicum (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jochen Möhr

Nadata gibbosa (Lep.: Notodontidae)  Jochen Möhr

Lacinipolia strigicollis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Panthea virginarius (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Sicya crocearia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr