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 31 morning

2017 October 31 morning

 

    Thanks to Thomas Barbin for spotting a misidentification of a spider on the October 21 posting.  I have now corrected it.  A reminder to all viewers that, if you spot a mistake, please do let me know. 

 

     Here are three more insects from Metchosin, photographed by Jochen Moehr.  Sincere thanks to Libby Avis for help with the moth identifications, and to Claudia Copley for the caddisfly.

White-speck Moth Mythimna unipuncta (Lep.: Noctuidae)

Jochen Moehr

 

American Tissue Moth Triphosa haesitata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

 

 

Caddisfly Halesochila taylori (Tri.: Limnephilidae)  Jochen Moehr