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.

April 24 evening

2021 April 24 evening

 

Gordon Usipiuk sends a photograph of Mesoleuca gratulata from Colwood, April 22.

 

Mesoleuca gratulata (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Gordon Usipiuk

   Jochen Möhr sends from Metchosin two difficult ones, one each of the difficult pairs Eupithecia ravocostaliata/nevadata   and  Drepanulatrix secundaria/monicaria.  Jeremy Tatum and Libby Avis are both in agreement – we cannot tell which!

 


Eupithecia ravocostaliata/nevadata  (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr


Drepanulatrix secundaria/monicaria (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

 

   The American Lappet Moth Phyllodesma americana  is much easier.

 

American Lappet Moth Phyllodesma americana  (Lep.: Lasiocampidae)  Jochen Möhr