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 7 afternoon

2020 September 7 afternoon

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Eulithis xylina

1 Feltia jaculifera

5 Neoalcis californiaria

1 Tetracis pallulata  

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria

 


Tetracis pallulata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

 

   Jochen writes:  On top of that I saw yesterday afternoon, September 6  – in addition to the two Woodland Skippers and 5 Pine Whites right here – 3 Pine Whites along Kangaroo Road and one Woodland Skipper on the Galloping Goose trail.

 

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  Yesterday, September 6, while looking for the Bell’s Vireo, I saw a Ringlet along the trail at Island View Beach.  Aziza Cooper said she saw three Ringlets at Island View Beach yesterday too, plus a Woodland Skipper.