2017 August 31

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   Today I had another look at that Red Oak in Bow Park where I found those two large batches of Noctua pronuba eggs yesterday, and within seconds I found another two huge batches.  No wonder this introduced European moth species has become so common!

 

    Here are photographs of three moths by Jochen Moehr from Metchosin.  Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying the first two.  The third is another specimen (or perhaps even the same individual) of the one shown on August 27. A definitive identification has defeated both Libby Avis and Jeremy Tatum, and we are going to stick to Euxoa sp, although E. difformis is a good possibility.

 

Oligia [formerly Chytonix] divesta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

Lacinipolia pensilis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

Euxoa sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

 

    Jochen also sends photographs of a caterpillar and a bug, found yesterday in Craigflower Park.

 

Nadata gibbosa (Lep.: Notodontidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hem.: Coreidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I visited the Goldtream Park Nature House this morning.  There were lots and lots of Neoalcis californiaria, but the moth below looked a little different:

 

Lambdina fiscellaria (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum

 

   Later, I found two more of these, a long way from any buildings, sitting on a tree trunk:

 

Lambdina fiscellaria (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum

 

 

Lambdina fiscellaria (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jeremy Tatum

 

 

 

   That’s all I have time for today.  More in the queue – to be done tomorrow!