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.

April 9

2016 April 9

 

   Rebecca Reader-Lee writes: Yesterday (April 8), I found this moth at our house (North Highlands). I’m sure it’s not unusual as I see them often.  [Jeremy Tatum responds:  Well, it’s Egira rubrica, and it’s certainly not one I see very often!  A nice one to get!]

 

Egira rubrica (Lep.: Noctuidae)

Rebecca Reader-Lee

 

   Aziza Cooper writes:  Seen today, April 9, a Mourning Cloak perched on a rock across the lawn from the Swan Lake Nature House.  Bill Savale and Jeremy Tatum also report single Mourning Cloaks today, from Mount Tolmie and from Spectacle Lake, as well as a Moss’s Elfin at Spectacle Lake.

 

Mourning Cloak  Nymphalis antiopa (Lep.:  Noctuidae)  Aziza Cooper