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 26

2017 September 26

 

Jochen Moehr reports seeing a Tolype distincta at his Metchosin house on September 24.  [For the purposes of this site, we are treating T. distincta and T. dayi as conspecific under the name T. distincta.  Jeremy Tatum].

 

Today, September 26, Jochen’s morning crop was a Noctua pronuba, a Neoalcis californiaria,  and an unknown noctuid, which Libby Avis kindly identified for us as Lithophane baileyi.  Jochen sends photographs of the last two.

 

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

 

Lithophane baileyi (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

 

Jochen also had a look on his kale plants, and found a caterpillar of a Cabbage White:

 

Cabbage White, Pieris rapae (Lep.: Pieridae)  Jochen Moehr