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 September 23

2024 September 23

   Jeremy Tatum writes:   The only moth at my apartment in Saanich this morning was this very worn Noctua pronuba.

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

Here are two caterpillars found today along Lochside Drive north of Blenkinsop Lake.

Yellow Woolly Bear Spilosoma virginica  (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)   Jeremy Tatum

Abrostola urentis  (Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae)   Jeremy Tatum

Abrostola urentis  (Lep.: Noctuidae – Plusiinae)   Jeremy Tatum