2024 September 26 morning

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 26 morning

Jeremy Tatum writes: The moth shown below emerged from its pupa this morning. The caterpillar, feeding on Gumweed, was shown on August 22 morning. I returned the adult moth to Esquimalt Lagoon, where the caterpillar was found, this morning.

Cucullia montanae (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum

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