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 12

2020 April 12

 

    Jeff Gaskin writes that he saw his first of the year Western Brown Elfin today, April 12, on Gorge Road, near Wascana Street.

 

   Jochen Möhr had a rich moth haul in Metchosin this morning:

 


Egira curialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Egira curialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 



Egira crucialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Egira simplex (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 


Egira simplex (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 


Cissusa indiscreta (Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Cladara limitaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Behrensia conchiformis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Orthosia hibisci (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr