2025 January 21

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.

2025 January 21

Barb McGrenere sends a splendid photograph of a cauliflower – with a Large Yellow Underwing caterpillar, which had been feeding on it.

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae) Barb McGrenere

Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a firebrat from his Saanich apartment.

Firebrat Thermobia domestica (Thy.: Lepismatidae) Jeremy Tatum

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