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.

March17

2017 March 17

 

   Jeremy Gatten writes:  I found my first Acerra normalis of the season on March 15th at my place in Saanichton.  They look very sharp when they’re fresh!  I’m getting several pugs in a night currently, and I had my first Orthosia hibisci waiting for me this morning.  I had another Egira hiemalis last night, too.  On March 15, I also had Hydriomena manzanita.  Our diversity is slowing picking up steam, but spring is having a hard time evicting winter!

 


Acerra normalis  (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Gatten