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 March 19

2023 March 19

 

   More Butterflies!

 

 Mark Wynja writes:

Three Mourning Cloaks and one Hoary Comma seen yesterday March 18, on the logging road on the west side of Okay Mountain (access from the Northwest Bay Logging roads), Nanoose.   Temperature 13-15 C at an elevation of 300 m
with patches of snow still present along the roadside.

 

 

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Hoary Comma Polygonia gracilis (Lep.: Nymphalidae)      Mark Wynja

   Gordon Hart saw three Mourning Cloaks, as well as the moth Enchoria lacteata nectaring at a Snowdrop,in his Highlands garden, March 18.

 

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Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa (Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Gordon Hart

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Enchoria lacteata  (Lep.: Geometridae)   Gordon Hart

   Jeremy Tatum photographed a woodling moth on the wall of his Saanich apartment building this morning,  March 19.

 

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Egira curialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum