2023 January 19

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.

2023 January 19

Spot on time, an Egira hiemalis – the earliest of our woodling moths (Egira) to appear early in the year – appeared at the back door of Jeremy Tatum’s Saanich apartment this morning:

Egira hiemalis (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum

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