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 17 morning

2020 March 17 morning

 

   Kirsten Mills writes:  Jeff Gaskin and I were at Swan Lake yesterday, March 16, at around 2pm. We had a Mourning Cloak fly by. Then we had a Satyr Comma land near the nature house. Here are some Comma photos. We couldn’t photograph the Mourning Cloak.

 

Satyr Comma  Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Kirsten Mills

Satyr Comma  Polygonia satyrus (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Kirsten Mills

   Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli from UVic’s Elliott Building this morning:

 


Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli   (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

   Jochen Möhr sends a picture of a cerambycid beetle from Metchosin, identified by Libby Avis as Plectrura spinicauda.

 


Plectrura spinicauda (Col.: Cerambycidae)  Jochen Möhr