2018 August 24 morning

 

   Unknown moth identified!   Viewers may have noticed that we had had to label one of Jochen Möhr’s recent moths (August 21 morning and August 22 morning) merely as “noctuid moth”,  or “Euxoa sp.”   We are happy now to thank Lars Crabo for successfully identifying the moth as Euxoa difformis, and we have labelled the images accordingly.

  Bryan Gates responded quickly to my plea for photographs of the Fall Webworm.  Now we need someone to get a photograph of one of the webs.  There is a photograph of a web in the posting for August 6 morning, taken by Gordon Hart during the VNHS monthly Butterfly Walk.

Fall Webworm Hyphantria cunea (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Bryan Gates

 

  Val George writes:  Yesterday, August 23, there were seven moths settled on the outside walls of the Nature Centre at Goldstream Park.  Six of them were Neoalcis californiaria, which I haven’t attached photos of because several photos have recently been posted on the Alert.  I’ve attached a photo of the seventh – Coryphista meadii.

 

Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George