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.

December 11

2020 December 11

 

    Jochen Möhr sends a further collection of Operophtera from Metchosin yesterday.  Jeremy Tatum and Jochen agree on the probable identifications as labelled below.

 


Operophtera occidentalis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Operophtera occidentalis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Operophtera occidentalis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 


Operophtera occidentalis (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr


Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

   Springtails used to be lumped within a single Order – Collembola.  Collembola is now a Class (or to some authors a Subclass), divided into three or four Orders.

 

Above:  Orchesella villosa (Coll: Orchesellidae)

Below left:  Ptenothrix sp. (Coll:  Symphypleona – Dicyrtomidae)

Ian Cooper