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 24

2020 May 24

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning.

 

1 Apamea cinefacta

1 Trichordestra liquida 

1 Melanolophia imitata

1 Selenia alciphearia – alive at 3  am, now only the wings left on the deck – the work of a wasp?  

16 Tyria jacobaeae

3 Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria

 



Trichordestra liquida (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Apamea cinefacta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Six Cinnabar Moths Tyria jacobaeae (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Just one Painted Lady on the Mount Tolmie reservoir at 6:00 pm this evening.  Very worn, but still flying strongly.