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.

2022 May 30

2022 May 30

     Here is a photograph of the original woolly bear caterpillar – the caterpillar of the Garden Tiger Moth Arctia caja.  This one was found along Munn Road Hydro right of way. 

Garden Tiger Moth Arctia caja (Lep.: Erebidae)   Jeremy Tatum