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.

September 16

2016 September 16

 

   Gordon Hart came across two demonstration-size caterpillars within a few minutes and a few feet of each other at his Highlands garden today.

 Cerisy’s Eyed Hawk Moth Smerinthus cerisyi (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Gordon Hart

 

Polyphemus Moth Antheraea polyphemus (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Gordon Hart

 

   There are still lots of Cabbage Whites around, and Jeremy Tatum watched one ovipositing on Cakile at Weir’s Beach today.  There’s a photograph of one of the eggs below.

 

Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

   The Pale Tiger Swallowtail caterpillar that Devon Parker found on Mount Sicker (see September 9 posting) pupated today.  Photograph below.

Pale Tiger Swallowtail Papilio eurymedon (Lep.: Papilionidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

  Jeff Gaskin writes:  Kirsten Mills, tells me that on Tuesday September 13 she and Marie O’Shaughnessy saw a Pine White in East Sooke Park by Aylard Farm.