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.

February 21

2018 February 21

 

   Over the last couple of years we have accumulated a number of photographs by myself and by Annie Pang of various unidentified tortricid moths which were never posted on Invert Alert.  Thanks to Scott Gilmore, we have now been able to contact Dr Jason Dombroskie, tortricid expert at Cornell University, who has very kindly identified them for us.  Although the photographs below are not strictly “alerts”, because they were taken some time ago and not strictly eligible for an Invert Alert posting, I show them below anyway – one of the privileges of being Moderator!

 

Acleris forsskaleana (Lep. Tortricidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Acleris rhombana (Lep.: Tortricidae)   Jeremy Tatum

 

 

Acleris variegana (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Carcina quercana (Lep.: Tortricidae) Jeremy Tatum

Clepsis spectrana (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Clepsis spectrana (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Tortricid moth (Lep.: Tortricidae – Grapholitini) Anne Pang

Tortricid moth (Lep.: Tortricidae – Grapholitini) Anne Pang

Hedya ?nubiferana (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Hedya ?nubiferana (Lep.:  Tortricidae)   Jeremy Tatum

Olethreutes ?appendiceum (Lep.: Tortricidae)  Jeremy Tatum

Olethreutes electrofuscum (Lep.: Tortricidae) Annie Pang