2024 May 23 morning

   Here’s a moth that emerged from a pupa given to Jeremy Tatum from a garden in Victoria.

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)
Jeremy Tatum

Marie O’Shaughnessy sends a photograph of a tent caterpillar from Outerbridge Park:

Malacosoma californica (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

   The spellings  –ica and -icum may be found in various sources.  We follow here the ATC spelling -ica.