2023 December 9

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 December 9

To make up for a paucity of contributions at this time of year, Jochen Möhr sends two photographs of the ubiquitous Operophtera brumata from Metchosin. Mo-thers might like to visit the Nature House at Goldstream Park to see if there are any Operophtera occidentalis (a native Operophtera) there.

Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Möhr

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