January 11

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.

2018 January 11

Contributors are still managing to keep this site open during these dreary January months. Jochen Moehr sends a picture of a Winter Moth from Metchosin, and Ian Cruickshank sends pictures of a Large Yellow Underwing caterpillar from Sidney Island Spit – alas, both European imports!

European Winter Moth Operophtera brumata (Lep.: Geometridae) Jochen Moehr

Noctua pronuba (Lep.: Noctuidae) Ian Cruickshank

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