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 21

2017 September 21

 

   Barb McGrenere found a caterpillar of the Girdler Moth Dargida procinctus in the Cordova Bay area.

 

Girdler Moth Dargida procintus (Lep.: Noctuidae)

Barb MGrenere

 

   Jeff Gaskin writes:  I’ve been seeing a fair number of Painted Ladies lately.  Especially today, in fact in Beacon Hill Park I saw five, and in the Cecilia Ravine Park there were two.

 

   Some more moths from Metchosin, sent by Jochen Moehr:

 


Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

 


Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Moehr

 


Orgyia pseudotsugata (Lep.: Erebidae – Lymantriinae)  Jochen Moehr

 

More photographs and observations tomorrow!