October 10 evening

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.

2017 October 10

Robert Wilson sent me two photographs of a caterpillar that wandered across his driveway on Triangle Mountain, Colwood, today. Jeremy Tatum writes: It is a species of Panthea. Not sure whether it is P. virginarius or P. portlandia – but these names may belong to a single species anyway, so I’ll label it probably virginarius. The caterpillar feeds on Douglas Fir.

Panthea (probably virginarius) (Lep.: Noctuidae) Robert Wilson

Jeremy Tatum reports that he saw a Cabbage White in Oak Bay today.

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