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 30 afternoon

2020 March 30 afternoon

    Jochen Möhr’s haul in Metchosin last night:

 2 Acerra normalis

2 Egira crucialis

1 Anticlea vasiliata

3 Eupithecia spp. 

1 Eupithecia ravocostaliata/nevadata

10 Hydriomena manzanita

1 Lithophane innominata

1 Lithophane petulca

4 Orthosia hibisci

3 Orthosia praeses

1 Orthosia transparens

10 Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria 

 


Anticlea vasiliata (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

   The next two are examples of the hard-to-differentiate pair Eupithecia ravocostaliata/nevadata. Libby Avis and Jeremy Tatum think there may be one of each here.  The mis-costal patch is supposed to be triangular in nevadata and rectangular in ravocostaliata, and I have labelled them according to that criterion.

 


Eupithecia nevadata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr


Eupithecia ravocostaliata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr


Egira crucialis (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr


Lithophane innominata (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 


Lithophane petulca  (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr


Orthosia hibisci (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr


Orthosia hibisci (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr


Orthosia praeses (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr


Orthosia transparens (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr


Orthosia transparens (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr