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 31 afternoon

2020 May 31 afternoon

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Hydriomena marinata

1 Lacinipolia sp.

1 Nadata gibbosa (same individual as last four days)

1 Probole sp.

 


Probole alienaria/amicaria. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Lacinipolia sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Hydriomena marinata/californiata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr