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.

May 21 evening

2018 May 21 evening

 

    More Möhr moths from Metchosin:

 


Perizoma curvilinea (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Perizoma curvilinea (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Gluphisia severa (Lep.: Notodontidae) Jochen Möhr

 


Nadata gibbosa (Lep.: Notodontidae) Jochen Möhr

 

 


Selenia alciphearia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   The West Coast form of the following spectacular hawk moth is treated by some authorities as a separate species Smerinthus ophthalmica.  Here, for better or worse, I retain the name Smerinthus cerisyi.


Smerinthus cerisyi (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Smerinthus cerisyi (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

 

  On the butterfly front, Gordon Hart, just back from a visit to Ontario, reports that he has Cedar Hairstreaks, Western Spring Azures, Green Comma and Pale Tiger Swallowtails in his Highlands yard.

 

   Ron Flower sends photographs of a Silvery Blue from the Colwood turn-off, and a Satyr Comma from Goldstream Park, May 17.  Satyr Commas, formerly common, have become quite rare in  the last two years, so it is reassuring to know that there are still a few about.

 

Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Ron Flower

 

Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Ron Flower

 

Male Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Ron Flower

 

Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Ron Flower