2017 December 20

 

   Jody Wells writes:  Surprised to see this moth outside my window yesterday despite the snow.  Jeremy Tatum replies:  No need for surprise – this is the European Winter Moth, and this is their time of year.  They are all over the place just now, but we are on the look-out for its North American relative, Bruce’s Winter Moth.  We hope that someone might take a camera out to the Nature House at Goldstream Park and photograph a winter moth there – it will probably be Bruce’s.  Numbers will fall off in January, so we need to find one fairly soon.  See Jochen Moehr’s photographs of probable Bruce’s from Metchosin on December 1 and 15.

 

European Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jody Wells