2022 September 15 morning

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 September 15 morning

Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a small moth at her house, September 14:

Udea profondalis (Lep.: Crambidae) Aziza Cooper

Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a caterpillar found near Blenkinsop Lake today, September 15. A small green caterpillar on nettle, with only three pairs of mid-abdominal prolegs has to be Hypena sp. [Added later: The adult moth emerged on September 30 (see October 1 posting) and it turned out to be H. californica.]

Hypena californica (Lep.: Erebidae – Hypeninae) Jeremy Tatum

Cheryl Hoyle sends photographs of a hover fly and a Yellow Woolly Bear caterpillar from View Royal, September 14.

Hover fly Syrphus sp. (Dip.: Syrphidae) Cheryl Hoyle

Yellow Woolly Bear Spilosoma virginica (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae) Cheryl Hoyle

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