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.

June 10

2020 June 10

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Stenoporpia excelsaria

1 Callizzia amorata 

1 Clostera apicalis

1 Dysstroma citrata 

1 Iridopsis emasculatum 

1 Nadata gibbosa (still the same)

1 Neoterpes trianguliferata   

1 Hydriomena sp

1 Apamea antennata

1 Perizoma curvilinea

1 Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli

 


Clostera apicalis (Lep.: Notodontidae)  Jochen Möhr

Dark Marbled Carpet Dysstroma citrata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Stenoporpia excelsaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr



Neoterpes trianguliferata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Iridopsis emasculatum (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Hydriomena sp. (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Perizoma curvilinea (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Apamea antennata (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I don’t usually post pictures of dead insects, but this dead crane fly in my Saanich apartment yesterday was so spectacular that I couldn’t let it pass without photographing and posting it.

 

Male Tipula pubera (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Male Tipula pubera (Dip.: Tipulidae)  Jeremy Tatum