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.

August 1 afternoon

2020 August 1 afternoon

 

Message from Gordon Hart:

 

Hello Butterfly Watchers,
We will be having another Butterfly Walk on Sunday, August 2. We will be following the Covid-19 policies approved by the VNHS Board of Directors. They can be found on page 5 of the July/August issue of The Naturalist and in this morning’s entry.

We meet at the top of Mount Tolmie by the reservoir, at 1.00 p.m. You can park in the parking lot there, or in the large lot north of the summit. After a look around the summit, and depending on the weather, we will decide on a destination from there.
See you on Sunday,
Gordon

Gordon Hart,

Butterfly count coordinator

Victoria Natural History Society

 

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Amorbia cuneanum

1 Callizzia amorata

1 Eulithis xylina 

3 Hesperumia latipennis

1 Neoalcis californiaria

1 Pero (probably honestaria)

1 Carcina quercana

 


Carcina quercana (Lep.: Oecophoridae)  Jochen Möhr

(This moth may be listed in various Families in different sources.)


Pero (probably honestaria) (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen  Möhr