2015 October 11

   Jeremy Gatten writes:  Still lots on the wing surprisingly enough.  My favourite of the lot was this one: Ceranemota fasciata.  This was taken in Metchosin at Hans Helgesen Elementary School (lots more there, but most are high up on walls) on October 10th.  I have probably six Orthosia mys at my place in Saanichton, plus a couple of Mythimna unipuncta and one Pleromelloida cinerea.  I still have to sort through the geometrids, but it looks like a couple of species of Euchlaena and also Maple Spanworms Ennomos magnaria.  Hans Helgesen had two other native noctuids: Sunira decipiens and possibly Lacinipolia patalis.

Ceranemota fasciata (Lep.: Drepanidae – Thyatirinae)  Jeremy Gatten

  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I’ve had no moths at my Saanich apartment recently, and I was excited to learn what Libby and Scott and Jeremy G have been seeing in their more rural surroundings.  So I went to Swan Lake to see if there was anything there around the lights of the Nature House.  I found just one moth, but a nice one to find –Tetracis jubararia.  Unfortunately in a corner where I couldn’t get a camera.