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 August 12 evening

2024 August 12 evening

Val George photographed this pretty little moth on the wall of his Oak Bay house, on August 10. Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying it as the Filbertworm Moth Cydia latiferreana.

Cydia latiferreana  (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Val George

    The caterpillar below was found on Gumweed at Island View Beach during the VNHS Butterfly Walk on August 4.

Heliothis phloxiphaga  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum