2022 March 28

     Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is yet another pug.  The moth is pristine fresh, just out of its pupa yesterday, reared from a caterpillar (shown below) found last year in a flower of Rosa nutkana.  One hopes, since the imago is pristine and totally unworn, that it would be easy to identify  – but it looks like so many other undistinguished pugs.  It is the same species as the one shown on March 14.   Rosa is listed as a foodplant for only one Eupithecia species in Klaus Bolte’s  memoir on Canadian pugs, namely  E. maestosa, and this moth is indeed quite a good fit to that species.  But I cannot claim a certain identification.

Eupithecia (possibly maestosa)  (Lep.: Geometridae)

 

Eupithecia (possibly maestosa)  (Lep.: Geometridae)

   Jochen Möhr sends a picture of the underside of an Emmelina monodactyla perched on the outside of his office window in Metchosin.  The caterpillar of this T-shaped moth is to be found in the flowers of Calystegia.

Emmelina monodactyla (Lep.: Pterophoridae)   Jochen Möhr

  Ann Tiplady sends a photograph of a tiny bee in a Dandelion flower in Oak Bay, March 25.  Jeremy Tatum writes that it may be too small to identify with certainty, but if anyone were to suggest Ceratina sp. he wouldn’t argue.

Possibly Ceratina sp. (Hym.: Apidae)  Ann Tiplady