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 29 afternoon

2020 May 29 afternoon

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

3   Eupithecias 

1   Hydriomena

1   Nadata gibbosa

3   Panthea virginarius

12 Tyria jacobaeae

 1  Udea profundalis

1  Xanthorhoe defensaria

 

   The highflyers (Hydriomena) and pugs (Eupithecia) are awfully difficult groups to identify from photographs with certainty, so Libby insists that her suggestions for the two below are “possibly”!

Possibly Hydriomena marinata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Possibly Eupithecia tripunctaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

   Rosemary Jorna photographed the bee below at Muir Creek on May 28.  Thanks to Lincoln Best for the identification to subgenus.

 


Andrena (Trachandrena) sp. (Lep.: Andrenidae)  Rosemary Jorna

   For those not so familiar with the minutiae of scientific nomenclature, Andrena is the genus, and the Trachandrea following in parentheses is not some sort of an afterthought, or an uncertainty, or an alternative name.  It is the subgenus within the genus Andrena.