2024 October 6 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 October 6 morning

No Invertebrate Alert was issued on October 5.

Gordon Hart forwards a message from Keith Taylor that Keith saw a Red Admiral in beautiful condition in his yard on October 2.

Gordon photographed this Spotted Tiger Moth caterpillar in East Sooke Park on October 5. It has a slightly unusual colour pattern.

Spotted Tiger Moth *Lophocampa maculata* (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae) Gordon Hart

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