2025 July 27

2025 July 27

   Aziza Cooper writes:  On July 26 at the Sooke Hills trail near Humpback reservoir, there was one Woodland Skipper.  First of year for me.

Woodland Skipper  Ochlodes sylvanoides  (Lep.: Hesperiidae)   Aziza Cooper

  Wendy Ansell writes that a worn Lorquin’s Admiral landed on her Royal Oak patio today.

Ian Cooper photographed these three moths this morning.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  I *think* the first of these is Noctua pronuba.  I’m more certain of the other two.

Probably Noctua pronuba  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Ian Cooper

Rheumaptera meadii  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Ian Cooper

Carcina quercana   (Lep.: Depressariidae)   Ian Cooper