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 30

2023 March 30

 

 

   Jeremy Tatum reports seeing a Cabbage White this morning on Poplar Avenue, Saanich.   He shows a photograph of a caterpillar of Paraseptis adnixa from near Blenkinsop Lake.

 

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Paraseptis adnixa  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Jochen Möhr sends photographs of moths from his Metchosin home in the last two nights.

 

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   Triphosa haesitata (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

 

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Triphosa haesitata (Lep.: Geometridae)   Jochen Möhr

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Nola minna  (Lep.: Nolidae)  Jochen Möhr

 

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Agonopterix  (probably argillacea) (Lep.:  Depressariidae)  Jochen Möhr