May 16

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.

2017 May 16

Jeremy Tatum sends photographs from his Saanich apartment of a Common Emerald moth, and a micro moth, probably Olethreutes glaciana. The Common Emerald, like that other European moth the Large Yellow Underwing, is now a very common moth indeed in Victoria. The micro was found as a caterpillar at Panama Flats, feeding on Snowberry.

Hemithea aestivaria.JPG