2022 August 18 morning

    Aziza Cooper photographed this moth at Haynes Park, Oak Bay, on August 16.  Unfortunately we have not  been able to identify it with certainty, and it may have to remain unidentified.  A  good possibility suggested by Libby Avis is one of two species of Mniotype.  These species are variable, and are devoid of very obvious features by which they can be readily identified.  Aziza’s moth, too, is devoid of very obvious features – but that is not quite enough!

Possibly Mniotype sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Aziza Cooper

   Jochen Möhr Sends photographs of three moths from his home in Metchosin.  Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying the first, and for confirming the other two.

Great Brocade Eurois occulta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Xestia xanthographa (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 

Campaea perlata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr