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.

August 21 morning

2018 August 21 morning

 

   The moth below was photographed recently by Jochen Möhr.  We had some difficulty in identifying it, and we are now grateful to Lars Crabo for identifying it ofr us as Euxoa difformis.

 

Euxoa difformis (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 

   Kirsten Mills writes:  Jeff Gaskin and I went to Parksville yesterday afternoon, August 20.  At Rathtrevor Park about a kilometre north of the main parking lot along the beach we saw a Grey Hairstreak and two Common Woodnymphs.   At Englishman Estuary off Plummer Road we saw a Mylitta Crescent and another Common Woodnymph.   Here’s an attached photo of a Woodnymph.

Common Woodnymph Cercyonis pegala (Leo.: Nymphalidae – Satyrinae)  Kirsten Mills

    Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a little moth (length 12 mm) that I found outside the back door of my Saanich apartment building this morning.  Thanks to Libby Avis for the instant identification!


Eudonia echo (Lep.: Crambidae – Scopariinae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   Jochen Möhr had a big haul in Metchosin last night.  We are going to have to post them in batches!

Nevada Tiger Moth Apantesis nevadensis (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jochen Möhr


Dasychira grisefacta (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)  Jochen Möhr


Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Drepana arcuata (Lep.: Drepanidae –Drepaninae) Jochen Möhr


Nemoria darwiniata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr