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 July 8 evening

2022 July 8 evening

    Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of Apamea maxima from his Metchosin home this morning.  Invertebrate Alert has only one previous record of this species – from Sidney Island, 2014 May 25.

 

Apamea maxima (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Jochen also writes:  Today, I spotted several Lorquin’s Admirals, several Swallowtails, among them repeatedly an Anise Swallowtail, and also a larger paler specimen, as well as a Mourning Cloak.