May 31 morning

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 May 31 morning

Scott Gilmore sends a photograph of a Tebenna sp. from Lantzville. This is from the family Choreutidae, only the third representative so far from this family on Invert Alert. Libby Avis writes that it is most probably Tebenna onustana, though she cannot be 100 percent certain of the species.

Tebenna sp (probably T. onustana) (Lep.: Choreutidae) Scott Gilmore

Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of Noctua pronuba, from Victoria:

Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum

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