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 November 13

2022 November 13

    Cheryl Hoyle sends a photograph of a Seven-spotted Ladybird Beetle from View Royal.

Seven-spotted Ladybird Coccinella septempunctata (Col.: Coccinellidae)

Cheryl Hoyle

   Val George writes:  Today, November 13, I again saw this Woolly Bear (Isabella Tiger Moth) in the corner of a window at the entrance to the nature house at Swan Lake. It’s been there for over a week – this, and the spider webs it’s accumulated during that time, suggests that this is where it’s hibernating for the winter.

 

Banded Woolly Bear (Isabella Tiger Moth) Pyrrharctia isabella (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)

Val George

 

Jeremy Tatum writes: On November 11 I wrote: Here’s a female European Winter Moth.  Has anyone seen a male yet?  –  I haven’t.   Jochen Möhr responds from Metchosin:   I think I got what you were looking for in your post to Invert Alert of Nov. 11.  It landed on my office window, and as a bonus, you are getting a picture of the underside as well.

 

Male European Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr

Male European Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.:  Geometridae)  Jochen Möhr