Category: Family
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Carposinidae
Just a very quick post. With the cold, we got hit by a prolonged power outage last week followed by several long days without water. Still waiting on the temperature to go up a bit before our water returns and I get a desperately, dearly needed shower, but until then we’re making do. Moth research…
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Sesiidae (Clearwing moths)
Other than that awful picture above, I’m really not doing well with the clearwings. Tackling these in reverse order: #3, I could give you handful of examples of getting a glimpse of a clearwing, then having it sod off and land behind a tree somewhere to have a cigarette and laugh at me. Last year…
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Lasiocampidae
Alrighty! Let’s take a look at another not-so-well-represented lepidoptera family in BC. Reviewing taxons like this helps stave off the fact that the only moths outside the last few weeks are sodding Operophtera. Like, seriously: no other species whatsoever. Zilch. This has been a bleak Christmas. I need a flight to the tropics, stat. The…
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Saturniidae
Let’s look at one of the more flamboyant families: the giant silk moths. There are ~2300 species globally but we have only 7 here in BC, found in two subfamilies, the Hemileucinae and Saturniinae. Our moths have a wing size of 60-140mm, but in the tropics some species get up to twice as large (280mm).…
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Drepanidae
Merry Christmas! What could possibly be more festive than examining a family in the Lepidoptera order to see what species are present in BC, Canada? I agree: nothing whatsoever. So let’s look at the Drepanidae, the false owlets and hooktip moths. I’ve seen the bulk of the 11-odd species found in BC, but the radical…
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Oecophoridae
Yesterday I posted about the members of the Decantha genus found here in BC. Today I wanted to continue that thought and take a little step back to look at the whole family, Oecophoridae. The post’s header screenshot above lists the species that have been reported on iNat as of today. The Annotated Taxonomic Checklist…
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