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.

April 26

2017 April 26

 

   Here are the rest of Jochen Moehr’s photographs (see April 25 posting) – and a big thanks to Libby Avis for identifying them for us!

 

Perizoma curvilinea (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

Cladaria limitaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

Cladaria limitaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

Cladaria limitaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

 

Melanolophia imitata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

Egira crucialis (Lep.: Noctuidae)
Jochen Moehr

 Left:  Hydriomena manzanita   Right:  Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli

 

(Both Lep.: Geometridae)

Jochen Moehr