2023 October 20
Les Peterson saw a Cabbage White at Panama Flats today.
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.
2023 October 19
2023 October 19
There are still a (very) few Cabbage Whites around. Wendy and Gerry Ansell report one from Martindale this afternoon, and Jeff Gaskin found one in the Burnside/Gorge neighbourhood.
Jochen Möhr sends photographs of moths from Metchosin. We start with photographs of two thorn moths, Tetracis sp. The more photographs I see of Tetracis pallulata/jubararia, writes Jeremy Tatum, the less confident I am in identifying them. I label each of them “probably” – but they could both be wrong!
Tetracis (probably jubararia) (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
Tetracis (probably pallulata) (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
Thera juniperata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
Thera juniperata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
Val George reports a Tetracis from the Goldstream Nature House, October 18, unfortunately out of camera range. He did manage, however, to photograph an Autumnal Moth there:
Epirrata autumnata (Lep.: Geometridae) Val George
2023 October 18
2023 October 18
Jeff Gaskin writes that he and Kirsten Mills have been seeing the occasional Cabbage White on most days, including today, when there was one in the Burnside/Gorge neighbourhood. Kirsten also saw a possible Vanessa sp. on October 16, so it is still worthwhile to keep a look-out for butterflies.
2023 October 17
2023 October 17
Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin that he had two Tetracis at his home last night – one more heavily spotted than the other, so possibly one was T. jubararia and the other T. pallulata – but unfortunately both out of camera reach. He did, however. manage to photograph the moth below – a species shown only a very few times previously on this site.
Philedia punctomacularia (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
2023 October 16
2023 October 16
Jochen Möhr sends the following photographs from Metchosin this morning:
Epirrita autumnata (Lep.:Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
Tetracis (probably pallulata) (Lep.: Geometridae Johen Möhr
Thera juniperata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr
Udea profundalis (Lep.: Crambidae) Jochen Möhr