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.

June 3

2021 June 3

   Sher Falls sends a picture of a snakefly from Harewood Plains, Nanaimo, June 1.

Snakefly. Probably Agulla sp. (Raph.: Raphidiidae)  Sher Falls

 

   Jochen Möhr sends a picture of a beautiful moth from Metchosin this morning.   Formerly called Pheosia rimosa, Libby Avis tells us that it is now Pheosia californica.


Pheosia californica (Lep.: Notodontidae)  Jochen Möhr