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.

November 23

2019 November 23

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning.

 

1 Drepanulatrix sp.

4 Erannis vancouverensis

 

   Jochen sends pictures of his four Erannis. Jeremy Tatum writes:  Long-time viewers of this site will know that I have long been of the opinion that the so-called “Erannis vancouverensis” is in fact the European Erannis defoliaria.  I have taken the liberty of taking a photograph of an Erannis defoliaria from a British site, and I show it here with Jochen’s local photographs.  See if you can “spot the difference”.  I certainly can’t.  The caterpillars, too, are, to my eyes, inseparable.

 


Erannis vancouverensis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Erannis vancouverensis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Erannis defoliaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Nick Greatorex-Davies

 


Erannis vancouverensis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Erannis vancouverensis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr