INVERTEBRATE ALERT
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.

2023 January 4

2023 January 4

 

   Even in the dull, dark days of January, people are still finding a few invertebrates to keep this site going.  Cheryl Hoyle sends these two from View Royal, January 3.

 

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Operophtera brumata  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Cheryl Hoyle

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Harmonia axyridis (Col.: Coccinellidae)  Cheryl Hoyle

     Aziza Cooper sends a picture of a small moth from her home in Saanich, also January 3.

 

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Endrosis sarcitrella (Lep.:  Oecophoridae)  Aziza Cooper