2022 February 18

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.

2022 February 18

Rosemary Jorna writes: This moth chose to settle on a friend’s boot for a feed when we stopped to admire the view yesterday at The Priests Cabin Park, Shirley. Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying it as Eucalantica polita, a new moth for this site.

Eucalantica polita (Lep.: Yponomeutidae) Rosemary Jorna

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