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 16

2021 September 16

    Aziza Cooper writes:  On September 14, this moth was on my garage, in Salsbury Way.

 

Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae)   Aziza Cooper

   Val George writes:  Yesterday, September 15, I checked for moths on the walls around the lights at the nature centre in Goldstream Park.  Results:

2 Neoalcis californiaria, 1 Noctua pronuba, 2 Plemyria georgii

Plemyria georgii (Lep.: Geometridae)   Val George

   Gordon Hart sends a photograph of a bee fly, probably Villa sp. from the Highlands.

Villa sp. (Dip.: Bombyliidae)  Gordon Hart

   Aziza Cooper reports that on September 15 she saw one Pine White at Aylard Farm in East Sooke Park.

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  This morning (September 16) I was looking at the flowers in the garden department of Canadian Tire at Hillside Shopping Mall on Hillside Avenue.  Among all the other plants was a small pot with a decorative cabbage in it, and a Cabbage White was ovipositing on it. I was tempted to buy the plant, but I had someone with me so I moved on.