December 20

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.

2016 December 20

Jeremy Tatum writes: I found this caterpillar yesterday on the sidewalk at Pear Street, Saanich. In the photographs it is sitting on a leaf of red cabbage, which was all I could immediately find to offer it.

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum

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