2018 April 17

   Today’s posting is hardly an “alert”, since it dates from last fall, but I thought that it was sufficiently interesting that it certainly ought to be shared.  Robin Robinson writes that he saw some moths that “were hibernating in a prospector mine shaft that I was looking through last fall on Jocelyn Hill. There were probably about 50 of them on the ceiling of the cave.”

American Tissue Moth Triphosa haesitata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Robin Robinson

American Tissue Moth Triphosa haesitata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Robin Robinson

2018 April 15

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   There are lots of dark-coloured flies that one encounters on the rotting seaweed on the seashore. I managed to photograph one of them on Mount Douglas Beach yesterday afternoon.  I think it is probably a coelopid, but there are flies in other families (e.g. Scathophagidae, Muscidae) that have members that occur on rotting seaweed.  It’s certainly not a muscid, so for the time being I’m labelling it as a probable coelopid.

Fly (Dip.: probably Coelopidae)   Jeremy Tatum

   I see from the bcvibirds website that Robin Robinson saw a Moss’s Elfin on Skirt Mountain on April 14.

2018 April 13

   Thomas Barbin writes:  Here are a couple of photographs of a Golden Buprestid Buprestis aurulenta that I found on April 9, 2018, at Goldstream Provincial Park.

Golden Buprestid Buprestis aurulenta (Col.: Buprestidae) Thomas Barbin

Golden Buprestid Buprestis aurulenta (Col.: Buprestidae) Thomas Barbin

2108 April 12 evening

 More of Jochen’s moths from Metchosin.

Hydriomena manzanita (Lep.: Geometridae)    Jochen Moehr

Egira crucialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

Egira simplex (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

Cussusa indiscreta (Lep.: Erebidae)  Jochen Moehr

Feralia deceptiva  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

Orthosia praeses (Lep.: Noctuidae)

Eupithecia ravocostaliata/nevadata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jocjen Moehr

Cladaria limitaria (Lep.: Geometridae_  Jochen Moehr

Egira hiemalis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

Egira perlubens (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

2018 April 12 morning

   Continuing with Jochen Moehr’s remarkable series of moths from Metchosin in the last few nights.   We start with three pugs.

Eupithecia graefii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

Eupithecia ravocostaliata/nevadata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

Eupithecia gilvipennata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

Two more geometrids:

Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

…and two noctuids:

Behrensia conchiformis (Lep: Noctuidae) Jochen Moehr

Egira rubrica (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

More this evening in this series – and thanks to Libby Avis for help with identifications.