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 April 12

2023 April 12

 

    Some sightings today, April 12, from Val George, who writes: The California Tortoiseshell was at the reservoir on Mount Tolmie along with a second one; the Orthosia hibisci was on the wall of my Oak Bay house; and the Emmelina
monodactyla was sitting on the door of my parked car.

 

 

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California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica  (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Val George

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Orthosia hibisci  (Lep.: Noctuidae)   Val George

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Emmelina monodactyla (Lep.: Pterophoridae)  Val George