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 5

2021 September 5

    Aziza Cooper sends photographs of two insects from this morning, September 5, at Swan Lake Nature House.

Jeremy Tatum writes:  On the original version of this posting, I had grossly misidentified the moth!   Thanks to Libby Avis, who put me right and identified it as Lithomoia germana.

The fly might either be a small crane fly (Tipulidae) or a winter gnat (they occur in summer, too!) (Trichoceridae).

 

Lithomoia germana (Lep.: Noctuidae)    Aziza Cooper

Dip.:  Probably either a crane fly (Tipulidae) or a winter gnat (Trichoceridae)   Aziza Cooper