2025 October 2 evening
Val George writes: On October 1, there were three Tetracis moths near the door of the Swan Lake nature house. Jeremy Tatum writes: The moth shown below is either T. jubararia or T. pallulata. The liberal sprinkling of tiny elongated dots over the wings, plus the two very emphatic transverse lines, suggests (but no more than suggests) to my mind that this is more likely T. pallulata.
Tetracis pallulata / jubararia (Lep.: Geometridae) Val George
To those who wonder why we sometimes have difficulty in identifying moths, compare the photograph of the moth shown below (from Jeremy Tatum’s Saanich apartment this morning) with the one shown on September 30. They may not look at all alike, but, writes Jeremy Tatum, I believe they are both the same species, Acleris rhombana.
Acleris rhombana (Lep.: Tortricidae) Jeremy Tatum
In the case of Tetracis we have two moths that look almost indistinguishable, yet they are distinct species. In the case of Acleris, we have two moths that look almost totally different, yet they are the same single species. Small wonder that we sometimes find identification difficult!
Wendy Ansell reports a Cabbage White butterfly at Island View Beach, October 2, We may soon be approaching the last sighting of the year.
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