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.

April 3

2020 April 3

    Jochen Möhr reports an uneventful moth show in Metchosin yesterday morning:

2 Epitheica annulata/ochreacea

2 Epithecia ravocostaliata/nevadata

3 Hydriomena manzanita

1 Orthosia hibisci

5 Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli

 


Orthosia hibisci (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

Jochen reports another quiet morning today.  No pictures taken, but the following moths appeared:

 

1 Acerra normalis

2 Eupithecias

2 Hydriomena manzanita

3 Venusia obsoleta / pearsalli

 

Jeremy Tatum writes:   Here is a caterpillar found on Indian Plum Oemleria cerasiformis near Blenkinsop Lake:

 


Paraseptis adnixa (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum


Paraseptis adnixa (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum