2020 June 17 morning

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes.  I have never seen the genuine Silverfish Lepisma saccharina in Victoria.  Perhaps some viewer will find one and photograph it for Invert Alert.  The usual animal I see is the Firebrat Thermobia domestica (see May 12).  The Silverfish likes cool places; the Firebrat likes warm places.  The animal below, Ctenolepisma longicaudata,  is somewhat intermediate in appearance between the two, though is more akin to the Firebrat than to the Silverfish.

 

Ctenolepisma longicaudata (Thysanura:  Lepismatidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   Annie Pang sends photographs of two micros:

 

Udea profundalis (Lep.: Crambidae)  Annie Pang

Brown House Moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella (Lep.: Oecophoridae) Annie Pang

   Melanie Boyle sends a photograph of a pug, Eupithecia sp., from her window on Cortes Island:

 

Eupithecia sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Melanie Boyle