April 15 evening

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.

2020 April 15 evening

Here’s another of Peter Boon’s moths from Nanaimo this morning. Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying it as Egira rubrica. Libby says that she had her first one of the season in Port Alberni this morning, too.

Egira rubrica (Lep.: Noctuidae) Peter Boon

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