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.

October 3

2016 October 3

 

   Liam Singh sends a photograph of a female Oak Treehopper.

 

Oak Treehopper Platycotis vittatus (Hem.: Membracidae)  Liam Singh

 

 

     Libby Avis  sends some recent moth photographs from Port Alberni:  Eupsilia tristigmata September 24;   Fishia discors September 26;  Pleromelloida cinerea September 27.

 

Eupsilia tristigmata (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Libby Avis

Fishea discors (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Libby Avis

 

Pleromelloida cinerea  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Libby Avis

 

 

Jeremy Tatum writes:  Although the butterfly season is almost at a close, there were still several Cabbage Whites to be seen in the Martindale-Island View area yesterday.

He also writes:  The pupa below looks much like many other pupae.  Can one tell what it is?  Well, the reddish rings between the abdominal segments mark it as a member of the Thyatirinae.

 

 Habrosyne scripta  (Lep.: Drepanidae – Thyatirinae)   Jeremy Tatum

   Mike Yip photographed a Striped Meadowhawk at Stamp River last week.   Thanks to Rob Cannings for putting us right on this one.  I (Jeremy Tatum) had originally mis-labelled it.

 

 Striped Meadowhawk Sympetrum pallipes (Odo.: Libellulidae)  Mike Yip