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 19 morning

2018 May 19 morning

 

         Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

 

Lacinipolia cuneata 1
Drepana arcuata 1
Drepanulatrix sp.   1
Egira perlubens  2
Perizoma costiguttata 1
Perizoma curvilinea 1
Tyria jacobaeae 3
Venusia obsoleta 4

 

 

 

  


Lacinipolia cuneata (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 



Egira perlubens (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Drepana arcuata (Lep.: Drepanidae) Jochen Möhr

 

   Libby Avis saw her first Polyphemus Moth of the year at Port Alberni yesterday.

 

   Aziza Cooper writes:  Yesterday evening, May 18 at 7:30pm, I found two Painted Ladies on the north summit of Christmas Hill. The rock was still warm from the sun, although it was cloudy.

 

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Aziza Cooper

 

 

   Marie O’Shaughnessy writes: Yesterday afternoon between 4-5 pm, May 18th,  I saw 3 Propertius Duskywings in the open areas near the  fading camas meadows on Mount Tolmie. Later I stopped off at the reservoir area and found a Western Spring Azure and 2 Painted Ladies. Also a brief sighting of a swallowtail.  It took off just as I arrived so unable to confirm species. 

 

Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Propertius Duskywing Erynnis propertius (Lep.: Hesperiidae)  Marie O’Shaughnessy

 

Painted Lady Vanessa cardui (Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Marie O’Shaughnessy