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.

September 3

2020 September 3

 

  Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Alucita montana

2 Triphosa haesitata

1 Eupithecia sp.  

1 Neoalcis californiaria

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria

 



Triphosa haesitata (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

 

   Lindsay Kruper sends a picture of a Yellow Woolly Bear from near Viaduct Flats yesterday:

 

Yellow Woolly Bear Spilosoma virginica (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Lindsay Kruper

 

  Jeremy Tatum shows a cocoon of  a Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata from Swan Lake:

 


Lophocampa maculata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)  Jeremy Tatum