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June 07,2024: I collected a few sprigs of Shepherdia canadensis with small leaf bloches near my home (photo #5) and placed them in small jar to rear.
July 12, 2024: Observed a moth on side of jar and ID'd it as Coleophora elaeagnisella. (photos#1> #4)
As this moth is a casebearer I checked leaves and stems for a case and found it attached to a small stem (photo #6)
@ceiseman

These were accidentally acquired along with a Platanthera orchid I'd collected on July 1, 2021, south of the Peace River in British Columbia, Canada, north of Jackfish Lake Road.

Host plant here:

https://inaturalist.ca/observations/101914155

These beasties turn up in the plant press, munching their way through my nice Platanthera specimen inflorescences...these are pics of a few dried out ones that were still stuck to the flowers.

Observation about 14 mi (23 km) from locality of designated paratypes at Duncan and Quamichan Lk, 43 mi (69 km) from paratypes locality in Victoria.

Original description page 392 here.

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Attracted to lights in old field - garden - orchard habitat along coast of Northumberland Strait.
This is a screenshot of a video so quality is poor. If iD is correct, this may be a new species for New Brunswick. The alternating bands of cloth on the sheet are 11mm wide.

Found this moth climbing in our Juniper bush while we were weeding the front yard. Over the course of about 1.5-2 hrs. it expanded it's wings to full size. I suspect that the caterpillar grew up on our neighbour's Virginia Creeper and over wintered as a pupa somewhere near the bush in our front yard.

Found in the morning inside my light trap.

iNat CV suggests this moth. It is not listed in Annotated Checklist of the Moths and Butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Canada and Alaska, Pohl 2018.
Moth also matches very well with https://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=9653, https://bugguide.net/node/view/30821 and
https://search.museums.ualberta.ca/g/2-5100, especially the distinctive dark brown orbicular, reniform an ST bands.

Found in the morning inside my light trap.

iNat CV suggests this moth. It is not listed in Annotated Checklist of the Moths and Butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Canada and Alaska, Pohl 2018 (for that matter no Callopistria are listed either) for SK.

Moth also matches very well with https://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=9630 and https://bugguide.net/node/view/3965

@gpohl: I think this this one could qualify to be added as a stray for SK in your checklist