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 15 evening

2024 August 15 evening

On August 14, Aziza Cooper photographed the moth below at the 13.7 km mark along the Nanaimo River Road.   Thanks to Libby Avis for identifying it as Caenurgina erechtea.

 Caenurgina erechtea  (Lep.: Erebidae – Erebinae)  Aziza Cooper

 

Here are a moth and two dragonflies photographed by Gordon Hart.

                            Neoalcis californiaria  (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

Paddle-tailed Darner Aeshna palmata (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Gordon Hart

Red-veined Meadowhawk Sympetrum madidum  (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Gordon Hart