2022 February 6

    John McClarnon writes today from Hazlitt Creek Road, Highlands,:  While watering overwintering tropical plants in the basement I found  the moth in the picture. All of the plants spend the summer / early fall outside.  John identifies it correctly as a Canary Thorn Neoterpes trianguliferata.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I have reared this species from a caterpillar on the leaves of Gooseberry Ribes sp.  John writes that there are two Red-flowering Currants Ribes sanguineum nearby.

                    

Neoterpes trianguliferata (Lep.: Geometridae)  John McClarnon

 

Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of an early noctuid moth from Metchosin.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I had hastily dismissed this as Egira hiemalis, so thanks to Libby Avis for pointing out, just before press time, that it is actually Egira cognata.

 

Egira cognata (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr