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.

April 3

2018 April 3

 

   Hans Roemer found and photographed a cocoon of Antheraea polyphemus in his Saanich garden:

 

Polyphemus Moth Antheraea polyphemus (Lep.: Saturniidae)  Hans Roemer

 

   Jeremy Tatum found one caterpillar on Indian Plum Oemleria cerasiformis at Lochside Drive near Blenkinsop Lake:

 


Aseptis adnixa (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

 

…and another one on Snowberry at Mount Douglas Beach Park:

 


Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum

 

 

   The only adult moth at my apartment this morning was the little micro shown below:

 


Agonopterix sp. (Lep.: Depressariidae) Jeremy Tatum