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.

2021 September 4

2021 September 4

Monthly Butterfly Walk scheduled for Sunday is cancelled.  See notice on September 2 Alert.

 Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a moth from her stove hood on September 1, and damselflies at King’s Pond on September 2.

 

Lesser Yellow Underwing Noctua comes (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Aziza Cooper

Damselflies (Odonata – Zygoptera) Aziza Cooper

 

Jochen Möhr’s moths from Metchosin this  morning:

 

1 Alucita montana

2 Neoalcis californiaria

3 Noctua pronuba

1 Spargania magnoliata 

1 Udea profundalis

 

Some photographs:

 

Spargania magnoliata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Square-spot Rustic Xestia xanthographa (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr