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.

June 18

2017 June 18

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a caterpillar of Egira curialis from the garden of my Saanich apartment.  It was feeding on the flowers of Welsh Poppy Meconopsis cambrica.

 

 Egira curialis (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum

Egira curialis (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum