2022 August 5

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   I have just moved my computer from UVic to home.  This will have some advantages and some disadvantages, and possibly some glitches in posting Invertebrate Alert while I sort things out.  I am hoping that the advantages will eventually win.

   Ren Ferguson sends a photograph of a moth from Mount Erskine on Salt Spring Island, August 4.  Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying it for us.

Caripeta divisata (Lep.: Geometridae)   Ren Ferguson

   Jochen Möhr sends photographs of some moths from Metchosin, plus another view of the gigantic beetle that he showed on August 3.

Campaea perlata (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Campaea perlata (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Campaea perlata (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Zotheca tranquilla (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

Prionus californicus (Col.: Cerambycidae)  Jochen Möhr

   The yellow Yellow Woolly Bear caterpillar shown on August 2 has since undergone ecdysis (skin change) into its final instar, and is now a much richer brown, less yellow, colour.

Spilosoma virginica (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jeremy Tatum

   Jeff Gaskin writes today:  While I didn’t find too many butterflies at McIntyre Road  reservoir – nothing but Cabbage Whites –  I did see a good number of dragonflies.  I followed up on what Val George reported the other day and found many Eight-spotted Skimmers, a few Blue-eyed Darners, Blue Dashers, 2 or 3 Black Saddlebags, an individual Western Pondhawk, and a Cardinal Meadowhawk.  The Black Saddlebags and Blue Dashers were lifers for me.