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.

July 15 afternoon

2020 July 15 afternoon

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Callizzia amorata

1 Drepana arcuata

2 perhaps Eudonia commortalis

2 Eulithis xylina

2 Hesperumia latipennis

1 Hesperumia sulphuraria

1 Hydriomena sp.

1 Nadata gibbosa

1 Nemoria darwiniata

1 Pero sp.

1 Properigea albimacula

1 Sicya crocearia 

 

Perhaps Eudonia commortalis (Lep.: Crambidae)

Jochen Möhr

 

Perhaps Eudonia commortalis (Lep.: Crambidae)

Jochen Möhr

 


Drepana arcuata (Lep.:  Drepanidae – Drepaninae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Eulithis xylina (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Hesperumia latipennis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Hesperumia sulphuraria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Callizzia amorata (Lep.: Uraniidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Nadata gibbosa (Lep.: Notodontidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Nemoria darwiniata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Sicya crocearia (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Properigea albimacula (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

 

More tomorrow…