2017 April 8

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Viewers might be interested to read that yesterday a butterfly collector in England was given a conditional six-month suspended prison sentence and was made a subject of a Criminal Behaviour Order for killing and collecting a Large Blue butterfly.  The story (including a movie of a living Large Blue) is at

butterfly-conservation.org/48-15454/legal-history-made-as-butterfly-collector-sentenced.html

   Ken Vaughan writes:  I found this little geometrid outside my apartment entranceway on Friday afternoon (April 7) hunkering down out of the wind.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I find these pugs hard to identify, and I often call them Eupithecia annulata  more out of desperation than conviction.  This time I think it really is Eupithecia annulata, though I’d welcome confirmation – or otherwise! – from other moth-ers.  I’ve never seen one so green.  This is, I think, a very fresh specimen, and greenish colours often fade on older moths.

 Eupithecia annulata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Ken Vaughan

  Bill Katz sends a photograph of another pug problem – from Goldstream Nature House today (April 8).  Is it Eupithecia ravocostaliata or Eupithecia nevadata?  We’d very much like opinions (with reasons!) from other moth-ers.

Eupithecia nevadata/ravocostaliata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Bill Katz

   Also at Goldstream, Bill photographed Hydriomena manzanita.

Hydriomena manzanita (Lep.: Geometridae)  Bill Katz