Category: Gelechioidea
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Platyedra subcinerea
Picked up my fourth lep lifer of the year this afternoon: a Platyedra subcinerea, or “Cotton Stem moth”. Or as my wife would say: “yet another boring brown moth”. It was wedged in under the fold of one of my moths sheets. Very pretty shade of brown, if you ask me, and those black marks…
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New potential additions to the BC Checklist
As per my last post, I spent June in Creston BC looking for new leps. During that time I saw four new potential candidates for the BC Checklist. Some were far, far out of range, but were pretty distinctive and I’m cautiously optimistic they can be ID’d by photo alone. We’ll see! I’ll include the…
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Ethmia
This’ll probably be one of the final posts for a while. I’m heading to West Africa in under 3 weeks and I need to spend my time swotting up on the birds – and fixing the house! Like a lot of North America, we got hit by an intense cold wave which for us meant…
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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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Decantha
One of the lovelier micromoths I get to see here on Bowen Island is Decantha stonda, image shown above. I’ve personally seen them here and the Okanagan (Osoyoos + Oliver). They’re not reported all that much, but being a micro they’re probably being overlooked. In the past I recall stumbling across them on the sheet…
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