2015 September 08

   Scott Gilmore writes:  I found an interesting click beetle on a Douglas Fir trunk at a local park while my kids were playing. It is new to me. A species of Selatosomus. Not sure a species level identification is even possible until there has been a revision of the group as this colour pattern appears common across species in this group.

Selatosomus sp. (Col.: Elateridae)

Scott Gilmore

      Jeremy Tatum writes: We have accumulated a few micro moth images over the past few weeks, and we are grateful to Eric LaGasa for identifications.  The first three were on the wall of my Saanich apartment.

Euzophera sp.: (Lep.: Pyralidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Maybe   Argyrotaenia franciscana (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Probably Eudonia sp. (Lep.: Crambidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   Next one photographed by Rosemary Jorna of Kemp Lake.

Diploschizia impigritella (Lep.: Gyphipterigidae)  Rosemary Jorna

   Jeremy Tatum reared the next one from a caterpillar on Cornus stolonifera.

Olethreutes punctata (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jeremy Tatum

and the next one from Arbutus menziesii.

Gelechia panella (Lep.: Gelechiidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Gelechia panella (Lep.: Gelechiidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   One September 3, Aziza Cooper photographed the moth below at Panama Flats.  Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying it as Nomophila nearctica.  Jeremy Tatum writes: On September 4 I cited Plutella xylostella as possibly the most widely-distributed butterfly in the world. Well apparently Nomophila nearctica has at least as good a claim on that title.

Lucerne Moth Nomophila nearctica (Lep.: Crambidae)  Aziza Cooper