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 26

2018 February 26

  

   Ian Cruickshank sends a photograph of a nest of young Silver-spotted Tiger Moth caterpillars overwintering on a Douglas Fir at Rocky Point.  Some of these caterpillars may look a little out of sorts, but they are not.  When the weather warms up a little, as I am told it will do in a few days, they will have a skin-change (ecdysis) and they will look very healthy in their new attire.

 

Silver-spotted Tiger Moth Lophocampa argentata (Lep.: Erebidae – Arctiinae)

Ian Cruickshank