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 10 evening

2020 April 10 evening

 

   Jeremy Tatum reports two California Tortoiseshells from the Mount Tolmie reservoir, 4:00 this afternoon.

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Drepanulatrix monicaria/secundaria

4 Eupithecia spp. 

4 Hydriomena manzanita

2 Lithophane innominata 

1 Melanolophia imitata

1 Phyllodesma americana

2 Spodolepis danbyi

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria 

 


Drepanulatrix monicaria/secundaria (Lep: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Melanolophia imitata (Lep: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Phyllodesma americana (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Spodolepis danbyi (Lep: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Lithophane innominata (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

Lithophane innominata (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr