2024 May 22

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 May 22

After finding a caterpillar of Plutella xylostella in his caulifower a few days ago (see the moth that emerged from this in the May 19 posting), Ian Cooper found an adult moth in his house a few days later.

Plutella xylostella (Lep.: Plutellidae) Ian Cooper

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