2023 June 29 evening

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 June 29 evening

Jeremy Tatum writes: I saw a Grey Hairstreak nectaring on Lavender at The Heights on Carey Road this morning.

Val George photographed these two moths at his Oak Bay home this morning.

Common Emerald Hemithea aestivaria (Lep.: Geometridae)
Val George

Elder Moth Zotheca tranquilla (Lep.: Noctuidae) Val George

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