2017 April 23

Happy Saint George’s Day, everyone!

Rosemary Jorna reports her first butterfly of the year – a Mourning Cloak on the Bugaboo Main past Port Renfrew, April 21.  This is the first report of this species this year received by Invert Alert.  She sends a photograph of a snail from the Walbran Valley.  Can someone identify, please?  (jtatum at uvic dot ca). She remarks that snails can retreat into their shells very fast for slow-moving animals – an observation that will be appreciated by anyone who has tried to photograph a snail!  [Jeremy Tatum writes:  I have often noticed, too, the astonishing speed at which slow-moving people can get in the way while one is shopping in the supermarket!]

Snail for identification, someone?    Rosemary Jorna

Bill Katz sends photographs of a micro moth and a caterpillar from Sooke.

Agonopterix oregonensis (Lep.: Depressariidae)  Bill Katz

Large Yellow Underwing Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Bill Katz