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 October 28

2022 October 28

    Jochen Möhr writes from Metchosin:  Last night, in addition to the two Tetracis sp., which have been here for now three days, an Epirrita autumnata and a Thera juniperata.

 

Autumnal Moth Epirrita autumnata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

 

Juniper Carpet Thera juniperata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr