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 14 morning

2022 July 14 morning

    Jeremy Tatum sends pictures of two moths and a caterpillar:

Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)

  Jeremy Tatum

 

Ypsolopha canariella (Lep.: Ypsolophidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Ypsolopha canariella (Lep.: Ypsolophidae)  Jeremy Tatum

   The Y. canariella was reared from a caterpillar found on Snowberry.  The moth was formerly classified within the Family Plutellidae (and it certainly looks like a plutellid to me!), but a new family, Ypsolophidae, has more recently been erected to include it.

   Val George writes:  This moth, Idaea dimidiata, was on the wall of my Oak Bay house this morning July 14. On July 12 I walked the railway track at Cowichan Station. As well as the more common butterflies, there were two Margined Whites; neither was prepared to pose for a photo. The male Common Whitetail dragonfly was more cooperative.

Idaea dimidiata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Val George

 

Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Val George