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.

2024 March 24

2024 March 24

   First report this year of a Cabbage White – one flew across the highway today when Val George was driving through Duncan.

 

If you look at the Full Moon at around midnight tonight Sunday/Monday, +/- 30 minutes or so, you may notice a faint shadow across its face, not very obvious.  The Moon is in the faint outer shadow (penumbra) of Earth.  This is a penumbral eclipse of the Moon.    If you were on the Moon, you would see a partial (not total) eclipse of the Sun by Earth.