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 16

2020 September 16

 

   Jeremy Tatum shows a photograph of a caterpillar that he found yesterday on Hardhack at Rithet’s Bog.

 

Scallop Shell Rheumaptera undulata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

1 Drepanulatrix sp

1 Dryotype opina 

2 Ennomos magnaria

2 Lithomoia germana

1 Mythimna or Leucania sp.

2 Neoalcis californiaria

2 Noctua pronuba 

1 Sunira decipiens

1 Tetracis sp.

1 Xanthorhoe defensaria 

 

 

 


Ennomos magnaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Mythimna or Leucania sp. (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Lithomoia germana (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Tetracis sp. (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr