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 14

2017 September 14

 

   Barbara McGrenere reports finding a caterpillar (shown below) of a Rough Prominent moth at McMinn Park (Cordova Bay) and seeing a Painted Lady butterfly at Outerbridge Park (Royal Oak Drive) this morning.

 

Rough Prominent Nadata gibbosa (Lep.: Notodontidae)  Jeremy Tatum