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 17

2016 September 17

 

   Libby Avis sends photographs of a caterpillar found on alder at Turtle Lake, Alberni Valley, September 9.  This is the Spear Moth, also known as Argent and Sable, Rheumaptera hastata.

 

 Rheumaptera hastata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Libby Avis

Rheumaptera hastata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Libby Avis