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.

October 6

2017 October 6

 

   Jody Wells sends a photograph of an Autographa californica nectaring on Buddleia.  He has caught the essence of this moth – that’s exactly what it looks like when you see it outside.

 


Autographa californica (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jody Wells

 

   Here are some more moths from Metchosin, by Jochen Moehr.

 


Dysstroma citrata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

 


Dysstroma citrata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

 


Drepanulatrix monicaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

 

 

  There probably won’t be very more butterflies around this year, so please report any that you see.  Who knows? –  You may at last achieve fame by being the person who reports the last Cabbage White of the year!