This blog provides an informal forum for terrestrial invertebrate watchers to post recent sightings of interesting observations in the southern Vancouver Island region. Please send your sightings by email to Jeremy Tatum (tatumjb352@gmail.com). Be sure to include your name, phone number, the species name (common or scientific) of the invertebrate you saw, location, date, and number of individuals. If you have a photograph you are willing to share, please send it along. Click on the title above for an index of past sightings.The index is updated most days.

2022 December 29

2022 December 29

 

   Val George writes that this moth was on the walls of his Oak Bay house yesterday morning, December 29.  This is a slightly latish date for this moth, just as Cara Gibson’s photograph on October 19 this year was a little early.  Apart from these two, dates recorded in Invert Alert from 2010 until the present have been from  November 1 to December 13.

 

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Erannis vancouverensis/defoliaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George