2019 April 1

 

   Mike Yip writes:  Still pretty quiet for butterflies in Nanoose. Yesterday I saw one Mourning Cloak on Cross Road.   At the Notch at least four male Orangetips were flying frantically about as well as one Propertius Duskywing and many Cabbage Whites.

 

   Mike sends two photographs of the day-flying geometrid moth Epirrhoe plebeculata –  this is the one I keep asking viewers to look out for egg-laying.  Now you know what to look for!

 

 

Epirrhoe plebeculata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Mike Yip

 

Epirrhoe plebeculata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Mike Yip

 

   And, talking of day-flying geometrids, Jeremy Tatum and  Bill Savale saw a fine Archiaeris infans in the woods at Royal Roads University on  March 30.  But no  butterflies.

 

   Jochen sends pictures of more moths from Metchosin.  Some moths can be hard to identify for certain, so we have left some of them as “sp.”

 

 

Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

 

Cerastis enigmatica  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Cucullia sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae)   Jochen Möhr

 

Probably Euxoa sp. Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Cladara limitaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Libby Avis writes from Port Alberni that she saw two Feralia deceptiva  and both light and dark Pleromelloida conserta  last night, and Mesoleuca gratulata  on March 30.