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 25

2020 July 25

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

3 Eulithis xylina

1 Hesperumia latipennis

1 Hesperumia sulphuraria

1 Lacinipolia pensilis

1 Nadata gibbosa 

1 Panthea virginarius

1 Protitame subalbaria

 


Lacinipolia pensilis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr


Protitame subalbaria (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr


Hesperumia sulphuraria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Yesterday, July 24, I saw two large (female) Western Tiger Swallowtails on Buddleia in UVic’s Finnerty Gardens.   I would not normally report sightings of such a usually common butterfly, except that I have seen so few of them this year.  I had almost forgotten how large and spectacular they are.