2022 October 5 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 October 5 evening

Jochen Möhr sends photographs from Metchosin of the moth Autographa californica:

Autographa californica (Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae) Jochen Möhr

Cara Gibson sends photographs of two moths from Swan Lake nature house:

Udea profundalis (Lep.: Crambidae) Cara Gibson

Jeremy Tatum writes: The moth below is Tetracis jubararia, or T. pallulata. I am leaning towards jubararia.

Tetracis jubararia/pallulata (Lep.: Geometridae)

Cara Gibson

The Grey Hairstreak caterpillar found by Ian Cooper the other day (see September 29) has now pupated:

Grey Hairstreak Strymon melinus (Lep.: Lycaenidae) Jeremy Tatum

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