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 11 morning

2020 April 11 morning

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from  Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Egira perlubens

1 Eupithecia graefii 

6 Hydriomena manzanita

1 Lithophane innominata 

1 Phyllodesma americana (same as yesterday)

1 Spodolepis danbyi (same as yesterday)  

5 Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli

 

Jochen writes that he sees an Orangetip  butterfly every day.

 


Egira perlubens (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

   Gordon Hart sends a photograph of Eupithecia graefii from his Highlands home.

 


Eupithecia graefii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

   Thanks to Libby Avis for help with identifying these and indeed most of the moths on this site!

 

Mr E sends pictures of a small fly found in Saanich, April 10:

 


Clusia (probably occidentalis)  (Dip.: Clusiidae)  Mr E


Clusia (probably occidentalis)  (Dip.: Clusiidae)  Mr E

Mr E also sends a photograph of a tachinid fly, April 5, Saanich.

 

Tachinid fly (Dip.: Tachinidae)  Mr E

   Mr E sends photographs of some small beetles found on on the spadix of the Skunk Cabbage Lysichiton americanus in Saanich April 10.   Charlene Wood writes:  These are great little rove beetles – Pelecomalium sp.  These beetles are known to pollinate skunk cabbage – I’ve collected many from this plant on Galiano Island.

 


Pelecomalium sp.  (Col.: Staphylinidae)  Mr E


Pelecomalium sp.  (Col.: Staphylinidae)  Mr E