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 21

2023 March 21

 

Jochen Möhr photographed three moths in Metchosin last night:

 

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Hydriomena nubilofasciata  (Lep.: Geometridae)    Jochen Möhr

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Eupithecia ravocostaliata  (Lep.: Geometridae)    Jochen Möhr

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Venusia sp.  (Lep.: Geometridae)     Jochen Möhr

   Jeremy Tatum found a third instar caterpillar on Oemleria cerasiformis at UVic this morning:

 

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Paraseptis adnixa  (Lep:  Noctuidae)   Jeremy Tatum