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.

September 2

2015 September 2

 

   Mike Yip sends a photograph of a caterpillar of Cerisy’s Eyed Hawk Moth, from Nanoose Bay, September 1.

 

Cerisy’s Eyed Hawk Moth Smerinthus cerisyi (Lep.: Sphingidae)  Mike Yip

 

   Jeremy Tatum sends a photograph of a caterpillar of a Spotted Tiger Moth, from Central Saanich, September 1.

 

Spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa maculata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiidae)  Jeremy Tatum