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.

November 22

2020 November 22

 

   Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this morning:

 

2 Epirrita autumnata

7 Erannis sp.

1 Operophtera brumata 

 

Here are photographs of four of the male Erannis, and also a female Erannis by Donna Dupas.

Male Erannis vancouverensis/defoliaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Male Erannis vancouverensis/defoliaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Male Erannis vancouverensis/defoliaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Male Erannis vancouverensis/defoliaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

 

Female Erannis vancouverensis/defoliaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Donna Dupas