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.

August 11 morning

2017 August 11 morning

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  Here is a Cyclophora dataria from my Saanich apartment this morning.

 


Cyclophora dataria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jeremy Tatum

 

   Jeremy continues.  On the August 9 posting, I reported a sighting of a clearwing moth (Sesiidae) from Swan Lake.  I now have some idea which species it might have been.  Scroll to August 9 to see.

 

   And here’s a real rarity – an American Lady – photographed by Martin Dollenkamp on August 8 at Black Creek!  Communicated by Mike Yip.  Butterfly enthusiasts should keep a look out for it – there may be more!

 

American Lady Vanessa virginiensis (Lep.: Nymphalidae)  Martin Dollenkamp