2023 October 2

  Jeremy Tatum writes:  My computer has been “down” for about a week, and consequently Invertebrate Alert has also been down, for which I apologize.   A huge amount of email has accumulated in the meantime, so it may still be a little while before we are back to normal, but we’ll try.  To start with, while my memory is fresh, a couple of sightings of my own:  A Cabbage White along Carey Road on September 30, and another Cabbage White over McKenzie Avenue on October 1, so we have an October butterfly.

And just before press time, we hear of two more October butterflies, from Steven Roias, who writes:  Yesterday  (October 1) at Jordan River, I saw a fresh Mourning Cloak and a fresh Red Admiral. This was opposite the road where surfers pursue their pastime.

And Jeff Gaskin reports a Lorquin’s Admiral from Swan Lake, September 30.

Two somewhat similar communications from Val George (Oak Bay) and Jochen Möhr (Metchosin) both on September 24:

Dysstroma citrata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George

Acleris rhombana (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Val George

Dysstroma citrata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Acleris rhombana (Lep.:Tortricidae)  Jochen Möhr

Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Two more moths below from Jochen Möhr, October 1:

Tetracis jubararia (or possibly pallulata) (Lep.: Geometridae)
Jochen Möhr

 T. pallulata is often a bit more speckly than this, though this is variable, so we can’t completely rule out the possibillty

Lambdina fiscellaria  (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr