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.

May 12

2020 May 12

 

    We are looking for someone who would be willing to enter our butterfly records from Invert Alert into eButterfly.  Sonia Voicescu did this last year and she would be very happy to help her successor to get started.

 

   We are also looking for photographs of the spring brood (i.e. now!) of the Margined White, either sex, upper- or underside.  We are interested to see how this butterfly fits into the “napi complex”.

 

    Rosemary Jorna sends photographs of a Western Spring Azure, and a tiny hempiteran nymph, from the Sooke area.

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

Western Spring Azure Celastrina echo (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Rosemary Jorna

 

Unidentified bug nymph (Hemiptera)  Rosemary Jorna

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Hyalophora euryalus

1 Hydriomena manzanita

1 Lacinipolia cuneata

3 Melanolophia imitata

1 Nola minna 

1 Perizoma curvilinea

11 (!) Tyria jacobaeae

2 Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli

 


Lacinipolia cuneata (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Hydriomena manzanita (Lep.: Geometrdae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Jeremy Tatum show a Firebrat.  It was a bit of a brat, too, for it waved its long antennae just as I pressed the button.

 

Firebrat Thermobia domestica (Thysanura:  Lepismatidae)  Jeremy Tatum