2024 September 30

No Invertebrate Alert was issued on September 29.

Jeff Gaskin writes:   On September 29, I went up Christmas Hill and found one female type Variegated Meadowhawk.  There were no hilltopping butterflies up there while I was there.  This was around 4:20 p.m.

Jeremy Tatum saw two Cabbage Whites along Carey Road on September 30.  Will any butterflies be reported in October?

Jeremy continues: Today, September 30, I saw an October Thorn moth Tetracis jubararia along Carey Road.  This is of interest to me, because I have had a pupa of T. jubararia for several months.  I am wondering, since I have just seen an adult moth, will the pupa eclode in the next few days?

[   plaudo, plaudere, plausi, plausum          to explode, explosion

claudo, claudere,  clausi, clausum           to eclode,    eclosion     ]