2021 September 16

    Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a moth that was at her garage light on Salsbury Way on September 13.   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I had no idea what it was, so I sent the photograph  to Libby Avis, and, to my surprise she returned with the news that it is a colour variety of Neoalcis californiaria.  We haven’t had one quite like this in Invert Alert before, but Libby sees them often at Port Alberni.

Neoalcis californiaria  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Aziza Cooper

   Corrigendum:   I had incorrectly labelled a fly in yesterday’s Alert as a syrphid.  Thanks to Jeremy Gatten for giving us the correct identification.  See yesterday’s Alert for the correction.