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 11 evening

2020 September 11 evening

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths in Metchosin this morning:

 

4 Agriphila (perhaps straminella)

1 Drepanulatrix  (perhaps monicaria)

1 Eulithis xylina

1 Eupithecia tripunctaria

1 Feltia jaculifera

1 Fishia illocata

4 Neoalcis californiaria 

1 Plemyria georgii

1 Pleromelloida cinerea

1 Tetracis jubararia/pallulata

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria 

 


Eupithecia tripunctaria  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Drepanulatrix (perhaps monicaria) (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Fishea illocata (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr


Pleromelloida cinerea (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr


Tetracis pallulata/jubararia (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr