2023 October 19

  There are still a (very) few Cabbage Whites around.   Wendy and Gerry Ansell report one from Martindale this afternoon, and Jeff Gaskin found one in the Burnside/Gorge neighbourhood.

Jochen Möhr sends photographs of moths from Metchosin.  We start with photographs of two thorn moths, Tetracis sp.  The more photographs I see of Tetracis pallulata/jubararia, writes Jeremy Tatum, the less confident I am in identifying them.  I label each of them “probably” – but they could both be wrong!

Tetracis (probably jubararia)  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Tetracis (probably pallulata)  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Thera juniperata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Thera juniperata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Val George reports a Tetracis from the Goldstream Nature House, October 18, unfortunately out of camera range.  He did manage, however, to photograph an Autumnal Moth there:

Epirrata autumnata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George