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 November 3

2023 November 3

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I saw my first Winter Moth Operophtera brumata of the season today, at the Swan Lake Nature House – out of reach of my camera.  The Juniper Carpet Thera juniperata  shown below was at my Saanich apartment building this morning.

 

Juniper Carpet Thera juniperata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum