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 26 evening

 2023 April 26 evening

 

  Jochen Möhr sends a photograph of a moth from his Metchosin home, April 25.  This proved difficult to identify until Libby Avis pointed out how very, very different are the two sexes of Hypena decorata, and that this one is a female.

 

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Female Hypena decorata  (Lep.: Erebidae – Hypeninae)  Jochen Möhr

   Aziza Cooper photographed a Satyr Comma at Royal Roads University today:

 

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Satyr Comma  Polygonia satyrus   (Lep.: Nymphalidae)   Aziza Cooper