2024 August 22 morning

   No Invertebrate Alert was issued on August 21.

Aziza Cooper sends a photograph of a Robin’s Pincushion, or Bedeguar, from Pedder Bay, August 20. This is a gall formed on a wild rose (usually on a nonnative species rather than on a Nootka Rose) by the larva of the gall wasp Diplolepis rosae.

Robin’s Pincushion Diplolepis rosae (Hym.: Cynipidae)  Aziza Cooper

Jeremy Tatum shows a caterpillar found on Gumweed at Esquimalt Lagoon, August 21.

Cucullia montanae  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum