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.

September 2

2020 September 2

 

   Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin: This morning, after a full moon and cold and foggy night merely one Neoalcis californiaria.  Libby Avis writes from Port Alberni:  Yes, similar here too.  Jeremy Tatum writes:  This morning I visited the nature houses at Goldstream Park and Swan Lake with the intention of photographing moths.  There was just one Neoalcis californiaria at Goldstream, and nothing at all at Swan Lake.

 


Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

   Jochen writes:   Yesterday afternoon up to four Pine Whites simultaneously and one Woodland Skipper.