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.

April 5

2019 April 5

 

   Gordon Hart writes:  I was at a store in a commercial area near Uptown in Victoria yesterday (Thursday, April 4) and I saw a fresh  Western Brown Elfin on a hedge.

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  The moth shown below emerged yesterday.  It was reared from a caterpillar found last year on Snowberry on Mount Tolmie.

 


Behrensia conchiformis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum