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 12 morning

2018 April 12 morning

 

   Continuing with Jochen Moehr’s remarkable series of moths from Metchosin in the last few nights.   We start with three pugs.

 

Eupithecia graefii (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

Eupithecia ravocostaliata/nevadata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

Eupithecia gilvipennata (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

Two more geometrids:

 

Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

Venusia obsoleta/pearsalli (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jochen Moehr

…and two noctuids:

 

Behrensia conchiformis (Lep: Noctuidae) Jochen Moehr

Egira rubrica (Lep.: Noctuidae)  Jochen Moehr

 

More this evening in this series – and thanks to Libby Avis for help with identifications.