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 20 morning

 

2020 June 20 morning

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Agrotis vancouverensis

1 gorgeous, fresh, unblemished Antheraea polyphemus

1 Dysstroma citrata 

1 Enypia packardata

1 Pasiphila rectangulata

1 Homorthodes hanhami

2 Hydriomena californiata

1 Iridopsis emasculatum

3 Pero morissonaria

2 Stenoporpia excelsaria 

3 Tyria jacobaeae

 


Agrotis vancouverensis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Antheraea polyphemus (Lep.: Saturniidae) Jochen Möhr

 


Antheraea polyphemus (Lep.: Saturniidae) Jochen Möhr

 


Homorthodes hanhami (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 


 Dysstroma citrata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Pasiphila rectangulata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Enypia packardata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Hydriomena sp.  (Lep.:  Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Iridopsis emasculatum (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 


Pero sp.  (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

 


Stenoporpia excelsaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr