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.

March 11

2020 March 11

 

  Gordon Hart sends a photograph of an Oak Winter Highflier Hydriomena nubilofasciata  from outside the Swan Lake Nature House, March 10.

 

Oak Winter Highflier Hydriomena nubilofasciata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

   Jochen Möhr found a nice little snail on his deck in Metchosin.  Thanks to Claudia Copley for identifying it as a Pacific Sideband (once known as the Faithful Snail) Monadenia fidelis.

 

Pacific Sideband Monadenia fidelis (Pul.: Bradybaenidae)   Jochen Möhr

Pacific Sideband Monadenia fidelis (Pul.: Bradybaenidae)   Jochen Möhr