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.

2023 February 5

2023 February 5

 

   Jochen Möhr sends photographs of a moth and a beetle from Metchosin, February 4.
Thanks to Scott Gilmore for identifying the beetle.

 

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Hypena californica (Lep.: Erebidae – Hypeninae)  Jochen Möhr

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Hypena californica (Lep.: Erebidae – Hypeninae)  Jochen Möhr

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Necrophilus hydrophiloides (Col.: Agyrtidae)  Jochen Möhr