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.

June 19

2016 June 19

 

   Jeremy Tatum shows a caterpillar of the Herald Moth, and a chrysalis of a Red Admiral, both from Lochside Drive north of Blenkinsop Lake.

 

Herald Moth Scoliopteryx libatrix (Lep.: Erebidae – Scoliopteryginae)

Jeremy Tatum

 

Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Jeremy Tatum