2022 September 27 evening

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 27 evening

Ian Cooper has taken to photographing some quite tiny flies. Thanks to Cheryl Hoyle for identifying the fly depicted in the first three photographs. Suggestion by viewers for the unidentified flies would be welcome.

Opomyza sp. (Dip.: Opomyzidae) Ian Cooper

Unidentified fly (Diptera) Ian Cooper

Jochen Möhr sends another view of the moth seen in this morning’s posting.

Pleromelloida cinerea (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jochen Möhr

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