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.

November 4

2017 November 4

 

   It’s Winter Moth time again!  After a prolonged warm fall, we suddenly get a blast of wintry weather and the European Winter Moth immediately appears.  Kirsten Mills (who probably saw the last butterfly of the year – see October 3 posting) spotted this moth at the Hillside shopping centre just two days later.  It might be worth it for someone to go out to the Goldsteam Nature House soon to photograph a winter moth – they are probably mostly bruceata  there.

 

European Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Kirsten Mills