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.

November 7

2015 November 7

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a White-speck Moth Mythimna unipuncta from my Saanich apartment this morning.  I have never seen the caterpillar, but in some parts of North America it can be exceedingly abundant and destructive. Apparently in large numbers it can denude an entire field of low-growing plants at night, and then the caterpillars migrate in a huge army to a neighbouring field.  In agricultural circles, the caterpillar is known as the Armyworm.

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Mythimna unipuncta (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum