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.

May 7

2016 May 7

 

   Yesterday we posted a picture of the caterpillar of the moth Coryphista meadii.  Coincidentally, today Rebecca Reader-Lee sends photos of two adults of the same species from the North Highlands.  They both seem to satisfy Jeremy Gatten’s criteria (see April 21) for identifying them.

 

Barberry Geometer Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Rebecca Reader-Lee

 

Barberry Geometer Coryphista meadii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Rebecca Reader-Lee

 

   She also sends a photograph of another geometrid moth – Xanthorhoe defensaria

 

Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Rebecca Reader-Lee

 

and a American Lappet Moth:

 

American Lappet Moth Phyllodesma americana (Lep.: Lasiocampidae) 

Rebecca Reader-Lee

 

 

   Annie Pang sends a photograph of Autographa californica, taken today.

 Autographa californica (Lep.: Noctuidae) Annie Pang

 

 

   Val George writes:  This afternoon, May 7, there was a very fresh West Coast Lady on the reservoir at Mount Tolmie.

 

West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Val George