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.

May 10

2017 May 10

 

   Mike Yip sends a photograph of Autographa californica from North Oyster Park, Cedar. 

 

 

Autographa californica (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Mike Yip

 

 

   Mike also sends a photograph of a dragonfly from Yellowpoint.  Thank you, Rob Cannings, for the identification.

 

California Darner Rhionaeschna californica (Odo.: Aeshnidae)  Mike Yip

 

 

   Nathan Fisk sends a photograph of a Cedar Hairstreak (the first that Invert Alert has heard of this year) from Beacon Hill Park  –  you don’t have to go out into the wilderness to find interesting butterflies!

 

Cedar Hairstreak Mitoura rosneri (Lep.: Lycaenidae)  Nathan Fisk

 

Jochen Moehr found a Cerisy’s Eyed Hawk Moth near Duke Road, Metchosin.

 

Cerisy’s Eyed Hawk Moth Smerinthus cerisyi (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

Cerisy’s Eyed Hawk Moth Smerinthus cerisyi (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Jochen Moehr