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 27 evening

2017 September 27

 

   Here are three geometrid moths from Jochen Moehr’s Metchosin home this morning:

 


Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

 

 

 


Xanthorhoe defensaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

 

 

 


Eupithecia graefii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

 

 

 

   At least five butterfly-ers visited McIntyre reservoir today.  We’ll write about what they saw in tomorrow’s posting.  In the meantime, in case you are wondering whether it is worth visiting McIntyre reservoir tomorrow (Thursday), which might be the last day before the onset of the rainy season, the answer is definitely yes.  There are still sulphurs and ladies there, though you might have to wait ten or fifteen minutes before you spot one.