2024 April 22 morning

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 April 22 morning

Marie O’Shaughnessy photographed a gravid female White-ribboned Carpet Mesoleuca gratulata in flight and looking to oviposit on blackberry leaves at the corner lot of Kerryview Drive and Petworth Drive, April 20.

Mesoleuca gratulata (Lep.: Geometridae) Marie O’Shaughnessy

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