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 12

2016 November 12

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  It seems that the caterpillar season isn’t quite over yet.  Yesterday, November 11, I found another Cabbage White caterpillar on Charlock near the MacIntyre reservoir, Island View Road.

 

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

   And there are interesting moths around, too.  Rebecca Reader-Lee writes:  Here is a moth from last night (November 11) in the North Highlands.

 

Autumnal Moth  Epirrita autumnata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Rebecca Reader-Lee